Honestly my esteemed friend @denmarkguy. The truth is that I have to confess that I've been a bit surprised and a little confused by your positive and optimistic appreciation and review towards @commentrewarder if it really is about fulfill each one of the bullet points in your post.
I dunno, perhaps these are just things of us the older and more decrepit chaps like me. But I wrote an article about this same topic two weeks ago and whose link I will give it to you only if you are really interested in reading it. But in my opinion, trying to forcefully gamify in this way a perfectly healthy and normal "social network" with a traditional organic community of actual persons and a collective human experience whose personal, conscious and organic activities and interactions should occur fluently and naturally among living human beings without coercion, blackmail or bribery of any kind, these initiatives and projects seems to me to be completely wrong and out of order.
The "commentrewarder & reblogrewarder" projects seems to me to be absolutely toxic, harmful and counterproductive to establish true relationships, interactions, engagement and activities of authentic quality and trust in a "social network" between humans.
I don't know about you bro, but I'm certainly not interested at all in meaningless chatter, smalltalk or annoying flattering. Nor that I have to waste my time and attention answering their babbling and nonsense to an army of parasites and brainless leeches who only come to comment on a post exclusively in search of an upvote. As was already mentioned by @peaceandmoney above when he said: "I have already had what I think might be comments on my posts designed purely to record some extra tips"
Well, to tell the truth, I'm actually pretty sure that you had already considered all of this that I've told you here. But for whatever reason, I see that you've been inclined to just outline a more positive view. :)
Cheers!!
Exactly. I agree with you.
Interactions should be (and on a properly working social network are) natural, real, genuine, and not forced and competitive.
Very sad that nowadays this is the rarest thing on the Hive blockchain.
Most Hive users focus on the monetary aspect so much that they forget (do not even care) about the contents. Often even as a so called content creator/author, let alone content consumers, which currently are only a very small percentage of the Hive blockchain users.
Most Hive blockchain users focus on their own posts.
Most Hive blockchain posts are ignored/overlooked because of the above mentioned fact.
This is how people ruin an otherwise technically revolutionary platform.
I'm probably as much of a cynic as you are, and I don't for a moment think that this is "the answer" to anything.
It is, however — at least from my perspective — at least a tiny light in the murk that can perhaps remind people that Hive is a social site, of sorts.
Of course there are going to be those who will try to just harvest some rewards from this... but isn't that the case with all walks of life, everywhere? Someone will try to take advantage of the system.
And I certainly wouldn't by writing about it if there wasn't a provision that only the comments that are upvoted by the OP actually qualifies to share in the reward base. And so, those posting "just to get some extra tips" are easily enough excluded by simply not upvoting their comment (it only has to be 1%, btw).
Should you find your way back here, you might notice that most of the engagement on this post has actually turned out to be pretty authentic, and much of it is coming from people who have been around for a long time.
As to the whole engagement issue, it is definitely true that many people are too busy "keeping an eye on the money," but I expect they would be a little less concerned if we currently had $1.00 Hive, in turn meaning that you could still upvote a decent comment with just 10% and get above the "dust threshold." CommentRewarder is likely most relevant when the price of Hive is really low, like it is now.
As for Hive being a "properly working" social network — as per @xplosive — I fear that ship probably sailed 7-8 years ago when everyone was so busy promoting this place on the premise of "join our community and make money, money, MONEY!!!"
We tend to get precisely what we advertise for...