Hello Scandinavianlife,
How are you doing ?
On the subject:
I think it's a good way to filter your comments, and filter the supposed fanbase numbers. especially when you grow so much that you can't handle every single one, flagging unrelated / spammy short comments even tho, seem a bit harsh, act as a way to "clean" and un incentivize that kind of behavior.
If it was on me, people that just spam unrelated comments that shows they haven't read anything should be punished in SBD even if it's like 0,1 sbd and have a moderator team that review the flagged content and deem if the punishment is well deserved or not to apply the - 0,1 SBD punition. Or at the very least nullify / neutralize the reward.
It would only create more of a healthy fanbase, at least, people that has subscribed for nothing more than to upvote and comment for reward might finally go away as there would be little to no reward anymore doing so, and promote, at least, actually READING THE GODDAMN ARTICLE.
Thanks!
Haha, yeah, reading theheadline is actually my minimum requirement for giving a little bit of an upvote. I don't flag short comments like "good job", unless they are pure spam. Like I said before, I don actually often take the time and check out commenters..but I suspect I wont be able to have the time to do that in the future if I continue to grow. It's sort of boarderline now, and I'm only doing that 70-80% of the time.
So I have to accept some spam, but I won't reward short comments like good article dear sir mister.
I do however understand that for some people that aren't steady in english it can be hard to express yourself, so I'm not like "That comment didn't reach my amazing standards, so no soup for you!"
It's not always going to be fair or correct, but I will try to to stick to a system as much as I can.