I applaud your idea to help smaller accounts with good posts/comments to reach the $0.02 threshold. I think I'll follow suit, emphasize it more, mainly because most of what I see from folks are on the lower accounts' posts.
It really is sad to see even those small amounts evaporate into nothing all for the sake of the computational load on the blockchain. Makes me wonder what that means when the flood gates are opened with Velocity. If it is an issue of computation, wouldn't more people on the blockchain cause event a greater problem?
What I'm not sure about, though, is where does the dust go? It may have been in Tim Cliff's post, but I don't remember seeing it. If it gets burned or returned to the reward pool, I guess that's okay. Otherwise, it would be nice to know where it does go.
Someone left a comment on another blog post saying the dust lined the pockets of Steem Inc. It sounded a little facetious, but it did make me wonder.