Hey @glenalbrethsen thanks for the comment!
Rewarding comments with the native HIVE token is great and I do think there is more space to grow there.
The thing is for comments to get larger reward, more votes than just from the author of the post are needed.
I do see an opportunity for communities to build more comments reward. A community account focused on comment voting can do better. This goes for the tokens as well.
Hey, @dalz.
I agree that more people should upvote comments more than just the author of the post. I think that does happen, but not nearly enough, and it tends to happen when the post is something about HIVE, especially if it's something deemed thought provoking or controversial.
But in any of those cases, it's less about engagement as it is about the content or slant of the comment. To me, engagement is more than just one comment and drop the mic. It's about what ensues after that. I'm not sure how we reward or incentivize that beyond those who might be involved in it. You rarely see, if the conversation does carry on beyond one or two replies by either party, the next four or five replies be rewarded, simply because, at that point, it seems like overkill, even though it's possible good points and counter points are still being made.
I think we're constantly being hit with the value ratio as far a content is concerned, and post content has always been king. Even in the newly formed AskHIve community, where the post can range from a one sentence to a much larger multi-part question, a post can get much larger upvotes, while the comments it's soliciting and trying to increase don't get rewarded much at all, if any.
So, I don't know. I tend to give a minimum vote just for initially engaging, and then increase the vote based on the content, so what I consider to be the better or more engaging comments end up at the top.
Then, I don't expect anything in return. It's worked out great that way. I'm doing what I feel is best for me, the commenter and ultimately, the whole HIVE platform, and then if it ends up being reciprocated, it's a little extra bonus. Win-win. :)
Well basically all the new ideas, innovation or just the right conclusions, comes from discussion and going back and forth between the two sides. You need a sparing partner to be able to reach out from your point of view and think is some new way. At least for me it works that way :)
I get a lot of inspiration from other people comments.