Yeah, not sure if you missed the part, since my post was a bit here and there, but it wouldn't be automatic. First off you'd choose if you want to do this, @peakd could then maybe add an icon to that post like they do with liquidated posts using @reward.app, then the distribution of the % you want to give comments would be determined based on which comments you voted and for how much - again giving the author the power to choose. So of course you could also just not use it at all and continue the way you've been doing things but for smaller accounts who want to reward their engagement but have to give massive votes to do so to even get the comment past the 0.02 payout threshold they may appreciate just giving part of their author rewards instead which won't be affected by the tax curve if curators and curation projects have gotten their posts past it. In turn they could just use tiny %ages to tell the bot to which comments their cut they've set of the author rewards should go.
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So once you choose, and people or bots detect that little icon or something in the code, they might be all over it due to the increased chance of being rewarded.
To be fair. I don't have a problem with this idea. And it does add an element of fairness for those who can't compete with someone who has a fat wallet.
In all honesty though, it takes more than rewards to generate engagement. A lot of posts here don't offer the consumer much of a reason to say anything and that is perfectly normal. What's lacking is content consumers outnumbering content creators. On Youtube there's one instance of content, 100k views, maybe 800 comments, and some of those comments are responses to other comments, so it wasn't the content itself that triggered the engagement. It was the engagement that triggered more engagement. Majority don't even read the comments. I rarely leave a comment on Youtube or anywhere for that matter. Here though, wtf? I can't seem to shut up.
So just so we're clear, I'm not against this. The platform lacks dedicated consumers. Consumers should outnumber creators by a huge margin, otherwise we'll never see the results we all want to see, and maybe offering more incentives to consumers is what's needed to tip the scales.