Sorry I upvoted your post at 0.000. That's apparently useless. (Edit: Wait, it's actually not that bad?)

Just found out that zero value votes are apparently completely useless even at 100%, see here. Sorry folks, I get upvote happy sometimes, gotta wait for my mana to recover properly.
Edit:
See @crokkon's clarification below!
wait, I guess you slightly misunderstood :)
Your vote may shows a value of $0.00 on steemit, but under the hood is still has a value. This is a steemd screenshot of your last vote:
The 313-million-something number - that's the value of your vote at the time of this writing. If that column were 0, your vote value were zero. However, it could have around four times that value if you let your voting mana recover.
I've read somewhere that posts and comments give their payout only if the total amount passes some threshold, I think it was $0.03. I can't find more details now, sorry.
This is true, posts and comments need to have a total value of at least 0.02 STU at payout time.
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:
hi @eccles
I olny wanted to thank you again for your support and valuable comment regarding my latest Trivial review.
Just figured that I will drop by and leave an upvote as a small token of appreciation.
ps. why is your payout declined?
have a great sunday,
Piotr
For this post the payout is declined because it was an "apology" post -- Declined Payout posts give YOU, the voter, the pool's share that would normally go to the author. Turns out I did not really need to apologize as much, though. 'S OK.
Still, I do get a reputation reward, so don't feel obligated to upvote something else.
Have a great Sunday as well.
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