I think that making upvotes worth their real theoretical value for vote counts under $5.00 would go a long way towards encouraging more comments. The rewards curve currently favors vote counts higher than $5.00 and penalizes those under. So, what do people do? They pile on the higher votes counts in an effort to maximize returns and they avoid low vote counts like the plague.
Since comments by nature are almost always going to get lower vote counts, they don’t get many upvotes, and that, of course, discourages comments to begin with. If we want to encourage comments, the reward schedule needs to change to one that creates incentives to upvote them, and not disincentives.
I really like your reflection on what entitlement really is BTW and the dichotomy drawn between curators and authors. No doubt about it, everyone’s agreed to previously established rules!
Thank you for your comment and illustrative affirmation.
I actually still haven't quite understood the voting curve and schedule of votes, as well as the reasons why it was set that way.
But you're right. This promotes a behavior that no only discourage people to commenting, but also affects people who produce quality posts but
are starting on Hive and haven't got much visibility yet to get high rewards. The worst consequence is that good content creators would ultimately leave the platform.
I agree with you when saying
Incentives can be created in a variety of ways. I'm sure and hopeful that our experts can come up with them.
When discussing an issue, I usually look up for the key concepts in order to build an opinion. In this case was entitlement, which got me to reflect on that. Because even though I believe in this, I did feel discouraged at first, but then decided to enjoy the ride regardless of other people's attention or support. But then I realized that interaction is key to thrive on Hive, and with that change of perspective I've gotten better results.
Thank you again for your input. It was definitely rewarding 😉
I'm no expert either on curation rewards and I always reserve the right to be wrong. 😂
But I really liked the distinction you drew. More often than not we get confused by symantics, especially in the euphemistic world we live in. In order to make good decisions, we need the best understanding of the matter that we can get, and if content creators think they have the right to be upvoted while curators think they have the right to decide on content, then we are the blind leading the blind. Good job fleshing out that misunderstood and misleading concept of entitlement.
"The blind leading the blind" That should have been my title! 😂
Thank you.
A hug.