Hi ana-maria, thanks for your comment. However, Blurt does not "dust" rewards. All payouts, no matter how small, are awarded to the creator (50%) and curators (50%). Throwing away small payouts on Blurt would not make sense - or be possible - because we pay a fee for everything, including curation. Once a post or comment has any amount of pending rewards, unless all curators remove their votes, the payout will occur. We have no downvotes, and no "dusting" on Blurt. : )

I can demonstrate:

There's a comment of mine from 7 days ago, just before it paid out.

There it is AFTER it paid out, showing the same amount (0.29 BLURT for creator and 0.29 BLURT for curators).

At that exact moment, this 0.29 BLURT payment arrived in my wallet (25% in liquid BLURT and 75% in BP).

You're still right that smaller accounts are generally better off not running their VP way down, which is why my article says "Smaller curators (accounts with less BLURT powered up) should probably still aim to keep their VP fairly topped up, to keep fees as proportionally low as possible, and to avoid having to spend hours every day finding enough content to expend all their votes on."