@danielsaori @davemccoy   I have seen the dustsweeper name around for a while but today read a post about it (by @curatorcat) and finally understand the concept.  I am confused though.    Some posts and comments do in fact pay out even if they are under $.02.  Although I already knew this to be true, I ran a quick SteemSQL query to pop up some results to show it - see screencap for examples of comments that paid out recently well under $.02
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWS8LSP2BqFe3Bt2xN4zYq2rSye4D7kUxUSkBdr36Yh4G/image.png)

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmREXXv9XDaXxfNoTJu3EXD7SYQSkQxq9cbeawRp9uWS7Q/image.png)

Have you checked if it was in fact true that posts/comments under $.02 don't pay out?



EDIT - now that I am poking around more, I am not seeing payouts of less than .01 though.  There may be a minimum .01, checking into that now.  But there are definitely payouts between .01 and .02

EDIT 2- part of what was confusing me is that there are apparently two different "dust threshold" terms on Steem blockchain :)  I was familiar with the voting dust threshold that is being changed under HF20, which has nothing to do with a minimum payout.  But I am still confused as to why I see comments paying out under $.02 :)