Rewarding well to the content consumers in short form engagements like comments. There are curation teams, but they pretty much curate either exemplary posters or those who are already established. So new users are not getting much interest, unless they are pretty good.
True that. Established ones get a lot of autovotes. Who cares to read what they write?
Upvoting comments need to be encouraged. However there is a rewarding curve that diminishes the power of author to reward good comments.
Recently my observation is that even there are less upvotes in GEMS community. I am not tracking who upvotes what or how, but for last few days, I feel like, new content is not getting the reward they used to sometimes back.
In my personal opinion, if someone does write some decent posts ( could be anything but original), then the chain should reward him, till he achieves at least 500 hive . That way , they get inspired and get habituated. And by that time they would also have improved. Same authors getting more than 50$ votes does not add new users - again its all my personal opinion.
I'm aligned with your personal opinion in this matter. If you look at the list of top 10 people who have been rewarded the most, almost all of them are continuously making over $25 per post. Some are writing 4 such articles each and every day. To be honest, very few read those posts that read $25! The worst is, they get high rewards for the same posts on steemit as well!
Have you heard of upvote services running behind the scenes? They say, you delegate to me, I will upvote your posts. These are no less than bidbots.
And no one realizes that including communities and we are saying hive will cherish !!
You're right. I believe also that auto votes that are long established for old users take away the chances for many new users. Probably some would put more on their auto votes but you can't do that with too many so you stick with your old ones.
I reckon that we should encourage the curating comments more, but again that will be limited to certain users if you write a comment to their post you might get an upvote.