Today I Found Out... A Small Post with BIG Implications:

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Hello there people,

Today I bring you a small post, with BIG implications.

Basically, I found out today that if comments are worth $0.02 at payout, you get nothing for them.

Now, this could easilly be a big post because there's some heavy math behind it, but I'll leave that to @eonwarped.

You can check his post here:

https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@eonwarped/life-on-the-knife-s-edge

However, the calculations say nothing to me, so I'm saving you all the hassle of going over them and leave you with what I really was surprised to learn...

Comments Worth $0.02 Get You ZERO!

Basically, I've been giving a lot of people a lot of nothing.

That's right, I mostly vote with reduced VP since I have so many people, comments and posts to vote.

Heck, most people do this and vote at a fraction of their power, and this means that us small fish usually give $0.02, $0.01 votes.

Well, I was feeling good supporting people with these numbers because hey... it was something.

Turns out... it wasn't.

In Some Cases, It Is Still Worth Something: When?

Well, when you vote a comment for $0.01 - $0.02 that vote itself won't give a thing to the commenter, but if someone comes behind and adds another vote that makes it pass the $0.02 line... then your vote helped that commenter earn.

So you still have power... you just don't have power alone.

This is something you definitely need to have in mind.

If you see a good comment with $0.02, make a good steemianism move and upvote it to $0.03.

Your vote is worth something this way, and the vote of the minnow who came before you is worth something as well.

In Conclusion

This is what I have learned today and I made it simple so you could learn about it too.

If, on the other hand, you need mathematical context... check out @eonwarped's post about it here.

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