Encouraging Users Large and Small to Vote for Comments
Simple reasons voting for comments is beneficial:
- If we relocate more of the reward pool to comments people are likely to engage more.
- Engagement/Relationships = equal product loyalty and commitment
- It is a good start toward building communities.
- Not everyone is a content creator, but they can add to the community via discussion
- Save voting for posts for the best content, improving quality and possibly increasing traffic and decreasing frustration with spam
- When you make a meaningful comment it is POR. - I just made this term up. Proof of Reading
I am watching my feed and voting for comments on your post, as well as my own! Day 2
*In no way am I advocating for voting on spammy comments.
**Self-voting comments should be fine, I think about it in terms of adding value to the platform vs. comment, post, what have you. Don't let others define how you should use your stake.
Feel free to use and edit the graphic if you want to promote voting for comments.
I have mainly focused most of my attention towards adding quality comments.. And it is better than spamming one liners and posting 50 article or day.
Thanks for making this article.. I've previously tried making some related articles only to see them sinks under the spam. Seems as my power isn't sufficient ^^
Cheers and all the best from me
Goldie 🍻
Good post with a very valid point. It's unfortunate that many aren't voting on any posts or comments other tgan their own. Some only comment in hopes of getting a vote. Not to add or engagement in any substantive manner.
I'm not sure the self upvoting is so bad, if you are engaging with others I think that is likely more important than posting.
i rarely upvote the comment on my own post, but i tend to get back to the author and see if i can upvote his post on his blog. unless they have no recent blog or i dont have any way to respond, then i am more then willingcto give my upvote.
Selfvoting is not really my way. 😃
That is nice, self-voting isn't bad, not engaging on the site is bad. I would rather someone vote their own content and logging in.
yes at some point I agree. I am doing my best to give my contribution toward to development
i feel guilty upvoting my own comments sometimes, unless i comment quickly on a post I know will have a high payout, i usually will wait until about 5 days have passed and then if no one else upvoted it then I will pay myself. Im stuck between wanting to grow my SP and not wanting to look selfish.
that is a nice idea i think from you. waiting for a long time to see wheter we need our upvote on our post or not. if it dne well so we better keep it to the other. 😃
I make a point of upvoting every comment (or post) I reply to, as well as every reply to my own comments. (unless they are spam)
And I also include a picture and upvote all my own comments at 10% to bring them up the feed. I've done that for my past 1600 comments...
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I also believe this approach is very positive for all of us who are investing in steem. For steem to truly take off, it will need to grow its user-base. If we're truly ambitious and hope to see steem one day become "the next Facebook" (or something of the sort), it will have to provide a platform where people want to engage more than on competing platforms. And incentivising good and fruitful conversations that are rewarding for the people engaging is the best way to achieve this as far as I can see.
So I think people who are investing in steem would earn more in the long term by allocating VP to maximize the user experience of the platform, rather than maximizing the short term return from curation rewards.
The engagement part is absolutely necessary for Steemit to really take off... It's what separates a mere blog to a full-blown social network.
Agreed, we have to grow and improve our user-base. The more we vote on comments the higher the quality of both post and comments we will get.
I think investors doing any amount of due diligence would see the lack of engagement we currently have. That is fine for now, but it is time to start improving it.
I completely agree. I have the most fun on Steemit when there's a good natured back and forth in the comments. The best articles are the ones that set the stage for a lively comment section.
I always upvote those comments which I usually find connected with my posts. I don't just upvote each and every comment. Especaially those of ' Please follow me and your post is good'' type comments. My posts are not a contract hub where people come and make a deal with me. People are losing self-respect just to make few cents on steemit. I don't get their mindset for the same, if even some people would follow them back then what good it would endure anyway. Those people would never upvote thier posts. Everybody for himself-- It is the philosophy, people are really taking seriously on steemit.
As far as I am concerend, I always upvotes irrespective of my voting power, the comments which is related to my posts and Which I found highly influential. This is the way Steemit should work.
Your line... People are losing self-respect just to make a few cents, is a powerful line. I may quote you, that is a great line. We have to start to bond as a community and focus on both growing the platform as well as looking for ways to increase the value of Steem.
Thank you @whatsup. I appreciate you thoughts and may be one day you and I would change the mentality of our fellow steemains and make steemit a better place.
I totally Agree with you, that voting on comments should be the way to go. But on the other hand I have a bad ffeling about the comments lately. A lot of people only come to comment and tell you to follow please. That makes me feel enoyed and undervalued, as these people do not even take the time to read my post. I wrote a post about it this morning because I find it really, really, really annoying.
I see it happen a lot as well. Especially with the newest crowd of members. I choose to ignore it and not reward them. If I see them getting unfairly rewarded I flag spam xD
Yes, I agree those comments can get annoying, I mean real comments like the one you made which shows me you read and comprehended my post. POR - Proof of Reading. ;)
Wow . I've never seen a whale support self voting . So far the loudest have spoken which they always do . Yet is this the beginning of the silent majority coming through ?
Those who yell the loudest ... My view, you earned it or bought it use it how you want. I also think if it is real engagement, why not vote it up. Are we going to say the voting bots are "better players" then someone who is actually making a comment on the site? I disagree.
I can't speak for all the whales, most have remained silent, but I don't see those focusing on the self-voting getting a lot of whale support. Maybe they are speaking with their votes.
I can see that it would be problem if everyone only voted for themselves, but that isn't the case.
Curation rewards need love too! I agree with your POR statement, engaging comments are the best kind. The problem with incentive-based voting platforms is the number of 2 word 'good post' comments. Educating new Steemers (if that's a term) is important and seemingly worth it's weight in [whale] shares.
I agree with self-voting, nothing wrong with self-promotion.
That's reasonable. Even though I try to vote on good posts than comments (Except my own posts, where I have to upvote good comments). And I don't really have that much VP anyway so... heh :d