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That seems strange. You might want to send them .10 SBD or Steem and keep track of it. I dunno why they wouldn't be able to return a profit.

They are over worked as well and are only able to get 2 votes a day in per user. Unless I am mistaken even with the increase the price is still worth it because we double our SBD value when we send to them. $1 sbd = $2 upvote value so even if we lose 15 % of that we still end up with a trade of 1 SBD for $1.70 - what ever curation rewards others get from the upvotes placed on our comments.

You've always had your @dustsweeper balance up? It looks like you are missing some votes.

I am missing tons of votes. I asked about it awhile back and was told they can only get 2 upvotes a day on average per user.

It looked like frank was getting most of his but he does make far less comments than you.

I am going to have to check into it further tomorrow . I get allot of dust upvotes.

How are they able to do that, give more than we send them?

The same way the bots do. @dustsweeper was getting delegations at very good rates.

They always have. .. I am not sure what calculations they used when setting up the program but upvote value has always been x 2 of what you send them.

But they claimed you would not actually make a profit out of it. You only recoup the dust you would otherwise have lost.

@dustsweeper appeared to normally be very profitable.

The fluctuation in price likely changed that outcome. All I know is the math says its Positive ROI unless there is something I am forgetting to factor in.