The multiple-account issue has been with Steemit always, for posts or comments.
Yep pretty much any tech solution that suggests limiting what an account can do to their own account is easily circumvented just my having more than one account.
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It's hard to code-block human ingenuity! ; )
Yep. Yet it is surprising how often people suggest things as a solution that all it requires is another account. Thus, why I said it might slow down the problem, but wouldn't eliminate it.
I ultimately think going with a 2nd reward pool just for comments might be the way to go. Then these activities won't hurt posts so bad, but the comment pool might end up being pretty worthless and cutthroat.
One thing I like about Steemit is the willingness of most folks to experiment. With such a complicated system, involving people with different motives and ways of engaging with each other, it's hard to predict what any change will actually produce. Quick testing and adjustment is a difficult thing to pull off with so many parts, but I've been impressed with what Steemit's been able to do. I hope they do some sort of adjustment, but active comments are key to keeping people on the site -- and to initiating enough transactions to help demonstrate the blockchain capabilities.
Yeah comments should definitely stay. Yet people abusing the comments by posting a lot of them and self-upvoting them all is draining the entire pool and will be impacting the payouts for posts as well. It seems like segregating them would keep either from being able to adversely effect the others.
I like comments a lot. I up vote a lot of comments. I keep my % at around 1% at the moment so I can up vote a lot of them, but I still do. I like to encourage discussion.
I've been able to keep my % at 15% for comments, with very little impact on my voting power -- and I fling those comment upvotes around like there is no tomorrow.
That hasn't worked for me. :)
That's interesting. I know you have lots and lots of curation rewards, so you are clearly an active and skilled curator! But we aren't too far apart in the number of upvotes we've handed out - at least according to Steemwhales.com and Steemitboard.com.