Interesting idea, Kevin. I still think about how awesome it was early on to see great comments earn huge rewards. Maybe that just means you and I need to become whales and save some voting power for great comments. :)
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I agree. I wonder how much the low price of steem has to do with that. I remember when one upvote from me gave a comment 25 cents. That alone is enough to encourage thoughtful comments, but just a few more votes could give you legit rewards.
Yup let's say the top influencers want to obtain useful solutions / opinions / feedback from the crowd, they could sponsor (or differently, upvote) a post that will handle the purpose for that post well. Or let's say my music company needs a new profile re-writing, others may sponsor my post (or I could sponsor an amount into that post myself) to bloat up the payout amount requesting for the crowd for contribution.
An SP distribution mechanism will amplify my votes for comments according to the sponsored amount (which is essentially part of the payout). I think i'll get a pretty decent profile writeup at the end of it..
Just an example..
since I started using a bot to vote, I stopped upvoting comments to save voting power for the bot