I can't believe I forgot to tell you....the long and short of dust votes. If you receive or give a vote that is worth less then $0.02 it will not pay out to anyone. It just goes back into the rewards pool. For more information see @thedarkhorse post here
I promise this is not to discourage you, but to enlighten you. You see, two great people here, @danielsaori and@davemccoy have created a way to prevent this from happening!!! It's called @dustsweeper. It will come along and upvote any posts OR comments that you would have lost to the dust vote so you can get paid. Check out the link and @dustsweeper, if you have any questions, please let me know.