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RE: Make Flagging Great Again - On Self Up-voting, & A Suggestion For Improving Curation On Steemit
I also wonder if it might be feasible to only allow upvoting posts and not comments. Or maybe comments cost you money. A lot of people upvote comments just to get it higher up on popular posts....and some may be willing to pay money to do that.
I feel that would remove a lot of value, however. I think, for example with Reddit, I have actually gotten far more value from the comments than I have from the original posts. I'd hate to lost that source of quality original content.
That's true. Just feels like dollar value of upvote on comments shouldn't dictate how it's displayed. Because it incentivized self votes on comments.
I do like that comments get sorted by reputation, if the amount is the same. I think ordering by payout has pros and cons, but I think overall, it seems to help get the better comments to the top.
Perhaps comments could be ordered by payout, EXCLUDING, self votes? That might solve the issue you noted and also retain the ordering of quality comments judged by the community.
Yeah, that would solve people gaming their comment placement.