This is a comment I made to another post which was about proposed changes to the reward systems on the payout of rewards. @eanwarped has confirmed to me that my thoughts are correct. I repost the same comment here as there s a promise of newbie nickles, (which I have received some in the past).
I would like to point out one thing, that I think many are going to miss about this, I will use my own self as an example. While the threshold is as 0.02 SBD, this does not mean if your account has a vote and it displays as 0.02 you still will get no rewards, I have had votes at 0.04 and gained no reward, this was due to the price of SBD at the time, If steem is priced at SBD is at 2 Dollar per SBD and you vote with 100% of your vote power when you have 50 SP you will get a reward showing of 0.01 this is a value amount in FIAT US Dollar Not a value in SBD, to reach the SBD threshold level you would need four of those votes and the displayed amount woud need to be ).04 before you recieved a payment, This is my undertanding.
I think this is something we should all become aware of with the rise and fall of the value of Steemit currencies.