@dustsweeper's purpose is not letting upvotes turn into dust. This is not possible in HF20. Any upvotes above the dust threshold will grant rewards, while every upvote below this threshold will hold no value! This is regardless of who has already / is still going to upvote that comment / post.
Total post/comment value isn't what counts anymore, but the upvote value in itself.
The dust vote threshold, the one for individual votes, will change. It will be like everyone is voting with around 1.2SP less.
But there is also a minimum payout value, and as far as I know, that will not change. It will stay at $0.02.
I hope you don’t know something I don’t, otherwise I would have to kill Dusty... 😉
My understanding is this minimum payout value has been replaced with the 1.2SP rule. Please check it out.
It is two different things, dust votes and dust/minimum payouts. Please see my earlier reply to Ropaga as well.
I will check it out, thank you for your reply.