RE: Solutions to Interactivity, Engagement and Comment Reward Problems
The proposal was to create a seperate pool to reward comments. I think it would be easier to use the same pool but allow authors to give a percentage of their earning to commenters.The idea that authors can chose the percentage they give to commenters or even curators is a very interesting idea to me because it gives authors new ways to get noticed. Today there are 2 ways authors can try to boost their article, by promoting it or by doing a 100% steem power post. If authors could also chose to give a certain percentage to commenters/curators then new authors could decide to give 100% back to commenters to get more attention. There are also many authors who actually prefer attention than money on some specific posts so they could also chose to give a high percentage to commenters.
Yeah I know that hehe, and I understand what you're saying, it's a good idea. I have also heard of it before, so I agree it's interesting to discuss more. If it wasn't a steemit post, it was someone else's post, or I dreamed it up. But the additional info you add here, that was proposed in the proposals I think, to allow different kinds of reward allocation methods. It might have only been suggested as an idea and not a formal proposal at the time.
These are good alternative to rewards people in different ways. If an author has the choice to do so and rewards more engagement that they want from their own rewards, I think this is not something anyone would object to implementing since it's completely voluntary to choose your own payout options. Thank you again for suggesting this and bring more attention to the idea.