I've been thinking about some additional options to certain communities where the focus and effort would mainly lie in the comment section lately and wanted to drop off some thoughts in a post and some possible solutions to see what you guys think and if you have any better ideas or improvements on mine.
Basically certain communities such as the Ask the Hive and The Manipulation Station community where in the former an author could just ask an open ended question without needing to put too much effort on the body of the post to allow for a lot of answers and discussions revolving them and in the latter the author would drop an image they'd think would make for entertaining photo-editing results where again the editors in the comment section would be the focus of the post and where the most effort would lie.
Aside from rewarding engagement with the ENGAGE token we all know that comment voting does not happen as much as main post voting, mainly due to autovoters in general and at the same time the curve and tax making it harder for comments to gain the vote strength posts past the threshold would - thus disincentivizing certian stakeholders as they know both curation returns and the comment rewards are taxed than if they voted on any other post.
The idea I had was based on the very beginnings of the chain before "the payouts" occurred where comments would automatically receive a share of the main post's rewards. One way this could be achieved is through the use of reward.app, say for instance if the rules of the communty would enforce using reward.app at 80-100% beneficiary (I wouldn't be completely against disincentivizing authors from earning something for posting a question or an image they've found in the above community examples) and the reward.app bot would notice that if posts are in this and that community, instead of sending the rewards back to the author it could (maybe - I haven't talked about this with the dev or any dev yet so this is just an idea without the thoughtprocess of how viable it is to be coded as a second layer service) instead send the rewards to the highest voted up comments and maybe even replies to such comments in percentages. Think 50% would go to the top comments of said post, 30% to top replies of those comments and 20% to the author.
Now I realize you may already be pointing at all the red flags of how this could be abused but if the communities would have to be whitelisted to enable this service then there would be curators and the authors making sure that there was no abuse going on in the comment section to unfairly take a cut from the post rewards.
Anyway, I'm sure there are maybe even better ways this could be implemented but these were just the basics of the idea so you'd understand where I'm coming from. I'm sure over time and with more and more communities being created where the focus and effort is directed at the comments there could be a higher demand for such a distribution to make it more engaging and active. r/askreddit is for instance one of my most favorite subreddits of which most of my comment karma stems from as I've spent countless of hours reading through people's stories, jokes, discussions and replies to them and the same goes for r/photoshopbattles where some photo manipulation's are so funny and well made I keep on wondering how many never bother and skip doing them even though they have the skill or a fun idea because there's just no incentive to do so with just karma points and some attention being the reward. As we know here on Hive things are different so I can't wait for a larger userbase to exist and for services like this idea to not even be needed because there'd be enough eyes and stake checking the comment section so the tax curve wouldn't matter.
Would love to hear your thoughts on it, though! Maybe we could experiment some more. :)
