I joined and sponsored SBI today. Great idea! As an FYI I recently read this post by @thedarkhorse related to the "dust rule" for upvoting comments and a discovery head made related to .02 not being worth anything on comment upvotes. This is a substantial flaw for project like SBI that need volume to function. People (most people) with low SP should only be upvoting posts if they want their SP to make a difference. Link: https://steemit.com/steemit/@thedarkhorse/your-2-cent-vote-is-worthless-the-real-deal-on-dust-votes
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Thanks! We're familiar with the dust rule. For most members, our vote is enough to exceed the dust threshold. As a rule of thumb, if each member has at least 1 share per post for their weekly posting frequency (e.g. post once weekly = 1 share, post 10x weekly = 10 shares) then their SBI votes will always exceed the dust threshold. We have only a few members that are being hurt by it.
In the fully automated system we are developing, we will check whether our upvotes exceed the dust threshold and skip posts for more active members until the vote would be above the threshold. (So people who post a lot will not see an upvote on every post, but they won't lose any of their upvote value as dust, either.)