I am not deterred by being t the bottom ,however; I agree that there should be a solution for those of us who devote energy into interacting via comments only to feel lost in the sea of one sentence comments. I am not sure of the reward system itself needs to be tweeked or we need some of us to actively promote these comments. I dont like the idea of downvoting but maybe we downvote this behavior out of existence? It definitely is set up for those who are putting little effort into this system to be rewarded by being spammers. We could start a' weak comment hit squad'. We go around 'hitting' spam comments by downvoting or pointing out the obvious spam. RESPECT