Rewarding commentators/commenters with steem blockchain dollars (SBDs) through upvotes, in my opinion, is a beautiful way to engage and build communities on the steem blockchain. 

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When someone comes to make a comment that adds value (not spam) on your blog post, I think the nicest thing to do is to reward the person, no matter how little. One cent (0.01 SBD) is better than nothing. The 1 cent and more which you distribute to those who comment, when comments are upvoted, usually goes to the steem reward pool and paid out to authors of comments after 7 days. Please, screen shot below of distribution of stake by the steem blockchain (steem reward pool) in the last 30 days. 

Image source: steemdb.com created by witness @jesta

This act of benevolence by Steemians who contribute by curating content (including comments) is appreciated. It is a major contribution to the proof-of brain (POB) algorithm clearly stated and explained on page 1 in the steem bluepaper. That 7-paged steem bluepaper is a MUST READ!

Since I joined planet steem 7 months ago, I have been known as one who likes to incentivize my fans by voting on not just posts alone, but their comments as well, based on my judgement of how much value they contribute to the community. I vote on comments, not because I am compelled to, but because I consider it very important to encourage discussion around the theme, which has been presented by content creators. The content you have created is as important as the comments. Believe it or not, many people may only peruse  your beautiful post, especially when the  content is too long or incomprehensible. I know for sure that when some visit to read blog posts, they only do so to read comments. More so, many  only go to the comment section and see how people are commenting and make  their contributions based on those comments. I do that , sometimes, especially when I do not have the time to read a very long post. My contribution to the steem reward pool is beginning to pay off. I am so excited about the new accolade that I got yesterday and the day before as one of the top 80 and top 100 curators of comments in the steem community. Please read entire post.

Top 80 Effective Steemit Curators Who Encourage Discussion (19/10/2017)

I like statistics, maybe because my father is a mathematician and statistician. So, I look out for statistics and try to understand as well as analyze numerical data. My affinity for numerical data made me come across 2 interesting posts, authored by @boddhisattva. This is how he introduces the post titled-TOP 80 effective Steemit сurators that encourage discussion for the 2017.10.19

I want to share with you statistics about the most effective Steemit curators.

This statistic is not about how much the authors or curators have earned. This statistics shows the list of curators, whose contribution to the reward pool distribution is the most significant. Read more from source.

Source: https://steemit.com/bisteemit/@boddhisattva/top-80-effective-steemit-surators-that-encourage-discussion-for-the-2017-10-19

Below is a screen shot of An Excerpt Of Top 80 curator of comments (19/10/2017)

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From the screenshot above, it is seen that @stellabelle is number 29, I am number 30. Our steem witness for @steemgigs, @surpassinggoogle  is number 6. There are many other familiar names on the list ; @stackin, @papa-pepper, witness @good-karma, witness @timcliff, @mammasitta, witness @pharesim, witness @teamsteem, @canadian-coconut etc. 

A second post I read from the same author, @boddhisattva- TOP 100 effective Steemit сurators that encourage discussion for the 2017.10.20,  reveals @stellabelle as number 41, @surpassinggoogle as number 8 and yours sincerely, @maryfavour, as number 56. 

Summarily, I think rewarding commentators and their comments is a good way to engage and build communities.

                                  APPRECIATION

My sincere appreciation goes to all who contribute to the steem reward pool for comments, especially those whose names feature among  the top 100. Please, let's continue in this light to encourage community building. Thank you. 

                            ANNOUNCEMENT

Fifty (50) steem has been transfered to @honourmaus as promised to cover for his transport expenses to and from Ill-Ife for Steemit in Nigeria (SIN) conference.

Transport fare for @sussan, the second winner of mission to minnow (MTM) challenge#3, will be transferred on or before Saturday, 28th of October, 2017. So far, I have received 29 Steem and 5 SBD as support to help sponsor these two winners mentioned above to SIN conference. Many thanks to these Steemians, who have supported me so far to the SIN conference. Please, more support is needed by way of Steem, SBDs, upvotes. Thank you. 

• @oluwoleolaide ----------------- 20 Steem
• @swetestglo-eu ------------------   4 Steem
• @smyle              ------------------     5 Steem
• @eurogee         ------------------      5 SBD

Do you vote/curate fellow Steemians comments or just your comments only? Please share in the comments section. 

Please, let us head to @botthisattva's blog and appreciate him for putting together the statistics which I have shared. I think it would be a good thing for those whose names appear on the list of top 100 comment curators to vote on @botthisattva post(s) from time to time. That would encourage him. Honestly, I do not know him, neither have we interacted before, but I feel that his posts deserve more recognition and love. Thank you. 

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