Haha! :) I know that was a joke and all that, but I must say that I'm not at all concerned about it. It looks like having done all that work into posting daily for almost a year now is already paying off. I might as well try giving more attention to what my audience is getting from the deal.
Although it does seem most of them are already doing quite well already, looking at those most active in my comments.
@MarkkuJantunen and I had a discussion about Steem and especially about the subject of "winning" today, and we came to the conclusion that it isn't necessarily the same mechanic here as it sometimes is in the meatspace, where winning may come from the disadvantage of others. Here, it seems the concept of winning is different, as there are whole communities of people following each others who will be the winners.
It's simply the concept of "what is good for you is good for me" exemplified.
So, I am already a winner. It's just that I want to keep it that way. If I don't succeed in sharing curation rewards (for being lazy or forgetful), maybe I can help my commentors win by voting them.
yes, it is interesting to see how much can be distributed through comments. Did you see this?
https://steemit.com/bisteemit/@boddhisattva/top-200-effective-steemit-surators-that-encourage-discussion-for-the-last-week-2018-03-26-2018-04-01
Granted many of them are automated accounts, members of trails and the like but still ( I don't know what the hell utopian are voting on though). Anyway, that is a lot of distribution on comments if you think about it and I would say that for the most part (at least for me) the comments I get are generally decent which means that voting on good comments will increase the value of good commentors significantly.
In my experience, it has changed the engagement level significantly, as has flagging spam a bit more often.
I really didn't understand the math behind it, and then when I looked at some of the people above me in the chart, there are some who are big enough that will, even with just a few votes skew the results.
I've noticed that 5% votes for comments won't generally affect my SP too much so I can vote on almost every comment I find good or interesting enough. 85th place... makes me wonder.
I have no idea and yes, the ones above can skew it a lot but, it is an interesting metric to consider (not necessarily how it is presented there). I think that when the hivemind updates come these kinds of statistics are easier to pull and much more will be unveiled.