For the longest time ever since I've been posting here of Hive I blindly believed that my small votes I made on comments were actually rewarding the vote recipient. Recently I read a post by my friend @dbooster that turned that misconception around a full one hundred and eighty degrees. As it turns out votes on comments that amount to less than $0.02 are never paid out at all, they are in reality turned into dust. What that means is that I have been wasting my votes because they do lower my voting mana but are never paid out.
However, the way I see it, the effort is not completely lost as the person who received the small vote will recognize that I appreciate their effort. I usually respond to almost all comments on my posts anyway because I want the people who take their valuable time and choose to engage my content feel that material is interesting and of some value.
There are a few ways to overcome this issue. Services like Dust Bunny and Dust Sweeper can help to not lose all of that dust. Dust Bunny is a service that allows you to share your Hive Power and in return some of that dust can be saved and converted into votes that surpass the limit. I believe it is prioritized by the amount of HP that you are delegating to the service. I delegate 50 HP to Dust Bunny and see occasional votes.
Dust Sweeper is another service that can help save some of the potential dust. The way it works is you send them liquid Hive and in return they will prioritize either your incoming votes or outcoming votes, or a mix of both depending on your settings. I have used this one as well and it does seem to work but requires sending Hive on a pretty regular basis.
Comment Rewarder
Comment Rewarder is a new service that has been available now for around two weeks. I first became aware of the service when I received an upvote from them, and it was in regards to a comment I had made on an account of a friend. That made very very curious so I began to investigate. It turns out that Comment Rewarder is a service that allows you to make them a beneficiary of part of your post's earnings (minimum amount is 3%.) These funds are used to reward the individuals who have commented on your post and you have upvoted their comment within the first three days of publication. The higher your vote the higher percent they will receive. So now your upvotes on comments won't be wasted and no longer will they be turned into dust!
To use the service all you need to do is go to beneficiaries (on Peakd and Ecency it's under advanced) and put commentrewarder down as a beneficiary with a percent and save. That's all there is to it! You can see below how I did it on the InLeo frontend. I'm giving ten percent back rather than the minimum to say thank you to all of the people who enjoy engaging my published material.
That's will wrap up the first part of my post, I'm also including a link to their information page if you're interested. If you have more questions ask me in the comments section and I'll try to help out.
@commentrewarder/introducing-commentrewarder-a-new-service-to-reward-comments
Usually on Wednesday's I have been doing my InLeo premium membership report, but I decided to cut back to twice a month on those and add in some interesting materials in-between. However, I will still share a little silver today like I always do on Wednesdays!
Today as a bonus I'm sharing another one of my Silver Striker tokens. I love collecting these tokens because they are a lot fun and the contain solid silver which is always a great investment. These are commemorative casino tokens that could be won by playing the Silver Striker slot machines in casinos around the world. Like I've mentioned before I haven't seen any of these machines in years so I'm not sure if they're around anymore. But the tokens you can collect still, the cheapest way is usually on eBay.
This particular token I honestly wasn't all that interested in but it came as part of a package deal, and the other tokens were ones that I really liked. I prefer tokens from defunct casinos and Sierra Sid's is still around. This one is a beauty though, it was part of a United States Civil War Guns set they produced back in 2006. Have a look:
About the token
From numista.com
This token is in great condition and contains about 0.65 Troy ounces of silver surrounded by a brass ring. The person on the token is a bit controversial these days because Robert E. Lee was one of the Generals in charge of the Confederate Army during the United States Civil War. His name used to found across the country in military bases but over the past decade they have begun to change things honoring him to new names due to the woke movement.
I'm not going to dive into a history about him today, although he was a very interesting historical figure fighting for the United States in the Mexican American War and taking charge of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. I did include a link to his Wikipedia page if you want to learn more about the man. I just wanted to share this silver beauty, they also have one of Ulysses S. Grant as well, but I don't own that one.
Silver and Gold are great investments right now. With all the instability in the world they are a great way to store wealth as they will always have value. Prices have been rising for both metals as of late and many are predicting gold to top $3,000 an ounce early next year.
I hope you enjoyed my post today and found something interesting and of value. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them below. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has supported me along my Hive journey. Yesterday I passed 5K Hive Power which was exciting, but I'll talk more about that in another post. Have a great day everyone!
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
DUO token
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