Yes right, that is what we are missing here, I was going to say a reward for reading, but that is rewarding in itself and if you implement a change , someone is bound to game it , people would just auto scroll , spend time on a post , get the reward, comment pool should go to curation, but it's good as it is now as a author reward, I don't think it should be forced, people should share their thoughts freely , not for rewards and because of incentives. If you like a subject and want to express that , yeah do it . Most people find it hard. And most don't read so you get 30% comment content and 1% reward pool, because the people with the Power vote for posts and don't read comments, if they read the posts that is.
Trails would be logical to occur, since good people would follow good content and share their findings because it's helpful , but in this mechanical fashion, if you want people to read stop the race for rewards. :D impossible right.