I noticed since HF20, comments do improved. People are making comments with alot of sense and using more words nowadays.
Short replies can still be good, granted that those are from legitimate exchanges of comments and just for the comment payout.
But there are posts/content that short responses are quite ok, for examples, memes.
You don't do lengthy comments, it should just be funny, emoji replies, things like that.
It depends much on the type of post, the length of comment.
If you think that a comment is just a spam, or totally nonsense, just downvote it.
Or just ignore it.
Authors should read all the comments, and choose which one to react with. It helps those commenters to feel that they are welcome, as result, they will give comments more in future post.
I already like the way steem post/comment/payout works.
Havent read new approach on this so far.
I agree @crypto.piotr and @juanmolina that everybody should value comments of readers. Engagement gives life to otherwise a very lifeless blogpost.
Flags, or down votes are expensive. If you have more than 500SP, you get a slider to change the value of your up vote, but a flag doesn't work that way, it takes full vote weight to flag. That means you can only flag 5 times per day if you want to be active every day. It also means that flags are best suited for people with a lot of SP and only become a viable option well beyond 10,000 SP.
My advice to those with low SP: be careful who you flag.
Another thing that many are not aware of: When the whales are in a frenzy up voting their own posts, the value of our own votes goes down. Even though the price of Steem has increased, yesterday the value of my votes has dropped to just below $0.03 because the whales are in another flag war using hundreds of bots.
Saludos!
Edit: P.S. This is what that looks like:
Where can I see these stats?
Go to: https://steemworld.org/@guruvaj for your own stats, and you can switch accounts to see the stats on any account you wish.
Thanks.
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You're welcome.
P.S. All the flags in my screen shot came from the same person and so did the up votes. I had nothing to do with it, but the whales controlling these bots are trying to wear each other out so I get as many up votes as flags. The flag bots all have names and are harder to track to a single operator (but we know for a fact it's berniesanders/nextgencrypto/themadcurator, etc.), the upvote bots have a naming convention that clearly shows fulltimegeek to be the owner. Don't get involved! With 2 million Steem bernie can reduce your rep to nothing on a single post!!
Dear and appreciated @onnovocks
This situation that you are going through seems unfair to me. The comment you left below has 16 negative votes. Why does this happen to you? for what is this?
I read this and I really did not understand much. Can you explain it to me please?
Yours, Juan.
They are consuming a larger portion of the reward pool leaving less for everybody else at that moment.
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