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RE: Time To Bring Upvoting Comments Back (For Those Who Can)
I stopped voting on comments after the EIP and doubt I'll resume to do so. I'd rather vote on good quality content instead, and would rather people do the same with me (vote on my posts rather than my comments.) I think we can still be social, make and receive comments, without expecting them to get an upvote. Just my two cents worth I guess. You make a good point about engagement though...We can never have too much of that.
Hey, @galenkp.
Yeah, I don't expect to be upvoted either, and amongst those who actually commented on a post where I asked it months ago, neither did the majority. It's nice when it happens, but it's more like frosting than the main entree.
Except, the way curation rewards work now, it's your favorite kind of frosting. :)
My plan is to continue to upvote posts, but I'm also going to upvote comments again.
It can be a nice little kicker for those receiving the comments, especially if their posts only make 0.10 or so...Getting 0.02 for a comment can be good...But we need content, and don't want people to start commenting for reward in preference to posting content...A nice balance of both is good. Engagement is needed, but there's got to be content to engage with.
From what I can tell, those who are inclined to post are still doing it. Those who weren't really inclined, aren't, but many of those if not most have decided to continue to upvote, either manually, or more likely through autovoting.
Which means, they're wanting to grow their stake, but don't have the time, the desire, the wherewithal, whatever, to post.
So, I'm in full agreement about the posting, and that we need to make sure we have it and more of it. For those who aren't really into posting, though, I would kind of like to coax some of those back into commenting. :)
I agree with your last line in this case for sure...Not posting? Cool, then comment and vote. I concur.
Hey, @galenkp.
And that's what we call consensus. At least on the last line. :)
I agree with it all, but particularly the last line is what I meant.