I have always loved the comments section of an article on any website. somehwere along the way the comments section on Steemit took a big hit and it saddens me.

I appreciate the complexities and potential consequences that a separate voting power for comments presents, but I also feel that discourse drives engagement, and quality content drives discourse.

With rewards mixed into the equation, it's almost as if discourse got left behind (rewards wise), and that's missed opportunity for sincere networking around mutual interests, also affecting that pipeline of quality content -> discourse -> engagement + networking -> mutual enrichment (new friend, new knowledge, a little SP, tangential public enrichment, etc)