The @topcomment initiative looks rather promising, and I'd like to nominate the above comment for it!
I hadn't seen the topcomment system before, so I'm looking forward to seeing this new feature from the friendly moose in action. I already know he does a lot to share content and contrast throughout Hive, so I'm sure this will only further benefit Hive!
The comment-rewarded bot is interesting, although it can be easily abused, especially on 'giveaway' type posts. The same sort of thing happens with tipbots on Hive and, of course, auto voting is the bain of all things manual.
It's great to see more users being proactive in giving Hive a helping hand, let's hope it continues to encourage Hive and Hivians to be more engaging, and enticing for users, new and old
The @commentrewarder bot is really useful once you understand exactly how it works... in this case, I am mostly speaking to the potential for abuse.
The original poster is actually in charge of where the comment rewards go... it's not just automated. If I don't upvote a comment, it gets nothing. I might upvote a great comment with 50% or even 100%, a fair comment with 20% and a "barely qualifies" comment with 5%, and the bot allocates the amount to be distributed accordingly.
As much as anything, it was developed to help relatively new publishers with lower HivePower reward worthy comments. So if I only had 500 HP, and still voted according to the pattern outlined above the part allocated from the post rewards would be distributed the same... thereby bypassing the infamous "dust threshold."
Ah interesting, it would seem this method would eliminate some of the 'scam' potential and give the control to the post author. I've seen it being used more and more recently, I'll maybe need to join the club and give it a go. Don't want to be too quick, otherwise they might stop calling me sloth!
Thanks for the nomination. I've upvoted the comment 😊
Uh, thank you 😌
!HUG
Thanks to @slothlydoesit who nominated your comment ☺️
It's not only a bot, there is still a human component in there. As I understand it the bot part is just sifting through the block looking for comments with the potential of being a topcomment but the final decision is done by a human.
I was surprised by it a few days ago when I commented on a post and got such a reply.
Check out this comment conversation I had on last weeks curation report.
It's obvious you haven't already been around this block.