Am I Just Kicking Up Dust?

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If you follow Hive account@abh12345's Engagement League, you know that on any given week, I could be one of the more active people on Steemit. I don't have as big a vote as some, but I still like to drop upvotes on people. Most of the time I leave votes on people's posts. Then I know it will get paid out because others will come along and vote for it as well. However, are my votes on comments counting?

I know there was talk in the preparation for HF20 about how they were going to lower the VESTS given per vote by a set amount, say if an account with the base 15 SP could give a vote worth 5 VESTS, then the amount per vote would be lowered by 5 VESTS. This would effectively mean there couldn't be spam farms that could just use the Steemit account faucet.

It's difficult to tell what's actually happening though. I didn't see a post that outlined all the changes that actually went live in the new hardfork. And it's not like I can see if my vote is $0.01 or $0.0099. I'm not even sure how to see how many vest a specific vote is worth.

So are people actually getting value from my vote now, or am I still just kicking up dust?

Hive account@themanwithnoname