It doesn't matter how many comments there are in total. One does it as the comments come in, so this argument with respect, is no excuse. One should read comments carefully to find out what the person is saying. You are suggesting that a rep score is an indication of the value of the comment. This is simply not true.

I notice you are suggesting that I may have just a few comments in my posts. How did you reach this conclusion? By looking at my rep point or by scanning my posts? If you read my comment again, you may find I said that I follow up on all comments and upvotes (even those who don't leave comments). This is how I found your post here. You upvoted my post - whether you read it or not, i am not sure. But thanks for that. You didn't comment - yet I still followed up. How many upvotes did I follow up? How many upvotes did I receive on my post?

I will leave these to you to find out, if you have the time. This I think is what is called manual curation. Actually reading and thinking about what people are saying instead of using a rep score. This is also called interaction and I believe it ought to count for something. I don't buy any excuses - if you saw the number of upvotes you may be surprised - 90% of them worth almost nothing btw - and I follow up on every single voter, regardless of what the value of the vote was - $0.4 or 0.04 or 0.00003 or . It is not too much work. One should never slip into being lazy and making excuses. I still call it what it is. Flies on a heap. It is not nice to acknowledge but we start to accept the flies, their actions and even start calling the pile of shit, content, when we start off on a slippery slope.