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.