That might be the case, but it also might be that honest comments get rewarded. I myself would upvote what I perceive as honest comments. And comments that I think bring something valuable. Being polite and saying things people want to hear doesn't occur to me as valuable.
Also, with SMTs, there will be more ability for communities to reward content that they consider valuable, and people without a lot of stake in that SMT wouldn't be able to downvote and remove those rewards.
Good debate guys! I often think about this very subject. I remember when Steemit first started, and I was campaigning for comment rewards, as I believed, and still do, that comments can really increase the value of a post.
However, it is a double-edged sword, without comment rewards, you'd probably get more honest comments, however maybe you'd get less.
Then again, people are more likely to comment on a high value account's post, because they know that just one vote from that account, could give them more than an actual post.
I've seen this with my own account, when it was high value, I got an average of about 30 comments per post, these days I'm lucky to get 3 or 4.
Maybe more people would comment if they knew there was one or more comment curators, who knows? Interesting though, as it is ultimately human behaviour, which in itself is fascinating!
Cg
This!
@borislavzlatanov
exactly! because it is not valuable, controversy and honesty delivers new knowledge. So many memes were born on reddit, 4chan, twitter, youtube comment sections and not a single one on Steemit.
As you probably know, Reddit went crypto yesterday and has introduced two ERC20 Token (Moon for the Crypto Thread and Brick for the Fortnite Gamers)
Same number of Tokens as HIVE but hardcaped and airdropped to those who already have contributed their life (probably the best years of their life) to the sub-communities. Much more organic. How to emulate this on Hive?
We have already enough tokens on the HE/SE, why wait for SMTs?