I currently have two main STEEM accounts, both holding about 2000 SP worth of voting power. I like up voting people who comment on my post in order to show how much I appreciate feedback on my post, and I often let my voting strength go down to just above the 2 ct threshold, but then I usually stop up voting comments because if I remember correctly, anything below $0.02 is deemed dust and is never paid out.
Looking at the EIP curve that is to be part of HF21, the proposed curve has a shape defined by:
- n * (n+c)/(n+2c)
This means, while for large n, (n+c)/(n+2c) will be approximately n/n = 1, but for smaller n, (n+c)/(n+2c) should approximate c/2c = 0.5
Now, if dust level remains at $0.02, the reward curve for a single social interaction vote for lower-half minnows might shift from something close to the orange line, to something closer to the blue line.
If this assessment is correct, and I want to keep giving meaningful up votes to comments on my post, even if STEEM drops further, it seems I might need to consolidate my two accounts back into one. Something I would prefer not to do because I feel having a mostly technical and a mostly creative account on this platform makes sense. I've been trying voting for comments from both my accounts for a bit, but is cumbersome, so I'll have to give it a long and careful thought before I choose to give up one of my accounts.
But then, at least I have the choice to turn two bottom-half minnow sized accounts into a single top-half minnow account. Many others don't. So while it is a bit of a pain for me, having to make a choice I don't wish to make, for others, the combination of the EIP convergent linear reward with the dust level threshold I believe might be a huge blow to social interaction.
It could be that I am wrong about the dust level threshold and that this is something from the past. But if it isn't , I really hope Steemit Inc will see it fit for HF21 to reduce dust level to half its current level as to keep social interaction for all minnows alive.