RE: Would Greater Comment Voting Help The Community?
As a general rule, if people take the time to comment on my posts I always upvote their comments at 100% voting power to show my appreciation. As for comments on other people's posts, I follow a somewhat organic approach and will upvote if it's something that really resonates with me or if I want to make an extra effort to help that person out.
I am in favor of having a separate reward pool for comments. Their nature is different from full posts. On average, comments take only a few minutes to write and are not carefully planned out like posts. They are more freely flowing in nature and are the primary method by which many people engage on the platform. They need to compete for rewards against each other rather than against full posts which receive the lion's share of the payouts.
Also would it be better if whales ONLY voted on comments?
Not sure if this is such a good idea. The power of whales is so unbalanced, if comments started resulting in much higher payouts, on average, than most regular posts, people would be even more disincentivized against making long, well thought out, well written posts than they are right now.
As long as it works as intended I am fine with it too.
Good point my only worry is that very few people actually read those long posts!
Thanks for your input:)
Ah, now this could be the topic of a whole blog post in and of itself. Personally, I like reading meaty articles I can really sink my teeth into. But I recognize that many social media users have short attention spans. Which is a good argument for introducing post types to Steemit: article, short post, video, link, etc. That way everyone can focus on what they like instead of having to wade through all the flotsam in the stream, looking for the good tidbits like now.
You should do it and please send me the link if you do:)
Very good point. It might also help to differentiate apps. For example the Steepshot guys (an Instagram type app) will be doing something like this to filter posts not taken with their app.