It's an interesting side issue that comments just don't tend to get rewarded much
I came across some stats post today that puts me in the top 50 comment upvoters on the platform. Going over the list, I am pretty sure I am one of the only humans there. I treat comment upvotes like they're Facebook "likes". I can spare a 1% vote to acknowledge having read someone's comment, and usually more if it's a really insightful or amusing one.
Instead of me hiring curators, I prefer to offer delegations for pay and have the delegatees run their own curation business, where their success or failure is in their own hands.
How is that different from offering a percentage of the SP earned to the curator doing the work? For example, I got a delegation from steempty cause he's nice and awesome and we have mutual RL friends. Wouldn't it be cool if he got, say, half of the curation rewards I get thanks to his delegation? We would both earn and it would depend on how well I curate. If I didn't do a good job applying the SP delegated, we'd both be making less and I'd eventually lose the delegation in favor of someone doing a better job.
I am in love with this idea.
I'll upvote my own favorites near the end of the post's lifetime in this particular case.
Yeah, I totally get it. Smart move. Let other people agree and disagree through upvotes first.
And once again - thank you for starting the most interesting thread on steemit in a long time. Even though the sheer volume of comments is too close to crashing my browser.
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