and commenters will see much larger payouts.

BUT only commenter’s that have comments with votes! And that is not the case for the majority of comments because nobody had the motivation to vote on comments... Explain me why they will vote comments now? Are the voting power not reduced again after voting on comments? What am I missing?

PS each comment from now on should de-facto get a minimum auto-self-upvote (for example 1% of our voting power, the exact % can be discussed further) that way SPAM RESPONSES should be less, and potentially REPLY-BOTS will get weaker !