We'd get 'nice post'ed to death. I've always voted for comments, for the most part. If it's one of those over the top compliments coming from someone I don't know, I usually skip them. I think we'd see a lot of those disingenuous commenting for the sake of reward types if they saw the post was automatically paying out.
I once jokingly wrote a post asking why people follow an idiot like me then listed a whole bunch of bogus possible reasons, again, as a joke. Some folks did show up and say, "Because of your votes!"
The majority are genuine folks who sincerely enjoy shooting the shit with me. But I know better than to advertise 'free money' because it's heartbreaking when you find out someone is just using you. I don't want fake testimonials under my posts and I think that would be the worst case scenario if comments were automatically rewarded.
I'll still vote comments and burn through my voting power and take a potential profit loss. But at least I'm in control and know who's getting what and why.
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.
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.
So say Alice gets 10 genuine and good comment she wants to reward, it would take her 10x40% vp to get them all to 0.02 at least burning 40% of her daily vp.
For Bob it would only take 1 daily vote to give the same amount of comments votes up to 0.08$ and at the same time get a tiny bit more curation and give the comments more rewards than the vp he burned compared to Alice.
So Alice could instead choose to allocate 10% of her post rewards to the comments, these post rewards are past ~16 hive in total thus aren't affected by the tax curve and she only uses 10x1% votes to evenly give all 10 comments 10% of her post rewards in tips and only burn 0.1 votes of the day.
lol, that's a blast from the past
Simply demonstrating how engagement triggers more engagement.
Plus I couldn't resist.
So, do the comments not receiving any author upvotes wind up having no rewards?
Yes
But yeah, I mean technically the authors could just save some liquids from their last post and just use tips for comments if their stake isn't high enough for it to make a dent and still not waste a substantial amount of voting power. Guess that kind of makes this idea useless now that I think of it. :DD
It's too bad we didn't have a 'like' button as well. Use that to trigger the event.
Nice post
Too soon?
Nice comment.