Heyyo! To spice things up a bit, especially now with communities being here, we got to talking about the engage token and some ideas came to mind. I'm writing this comment here to let ya'll know what we been thinking and we welcome anyone to let us know what you think about the ideas and if you think they could be improved.

We at OCD have been wanting to increase engagement for some time now and instead of creating a new token we figured using one that already exists and can be used platform wide would be better.

From our end though, we would want to enforce the engage token in these ways:

Our curators at OCD will be given 1k engage tokens each (I have about 4700 from god knows when that I'm gonna share with whichever curator is interested) and when they're doing their usual curation in our community and give out engage tokens to commenters they happen to read we will give that comment a vote depending on length, quality, etc.

We are not interested in maximizing curation rewards so in order to incentivize users to engage and curate comments more we'll be voting on the comments late. Everything still manual but only on trusted curators for now (including @abh12345 and in the future maybe other users we trust won't abuse the system). With this we are hoping people will read more comments and engage with them while at the same time curating them knowing there's a possibility for a bigger vote coming in later from our accounts rewarding their curation.

On top of that the funding we initially set aside for the tip bot which isn't here yet and has been going towards funding #godsunchained giveaways on the @teamocd account. We will instead be setting it aside to at random times purchase the existing sell orders off of steem-engine markets of the ENGAGE token. We're hoping this will give the token some more demand and raise engagement and that more users will want to engage more to be able to earn the token from users with 1k who are able to issue it creating more users in the future holding 1k tokens while knowing that there's some buying power that will give them some value.

So, a TL;DR of what you can look forward to when engaging:

1. ENGAGE Tokens worth not nothing(?)
2. Being able to issue tokens yourself once you hit 1000! (don't abuse it or we will sue block you)
3. Possible curation on your engaging comments(!)
4. Higher curation rewards if bots don't front-run you(?!)
5. ???
6. More engagement platform wide!

For starters the OCD team will be focusing on engagement on our community but every project should be able to do something similar on their own or come up with better incentives/ideas - if so feel free to share them here! :)

Anyway let us know what you think!

!ENGAGE 69