The one raised is a really interesting question. I'm new to the platform but I've been actively posting for 2 months now, almost every day, and my topics are mainly about financial markets, although I'm thinking of creating another account to use Hive more as a social network than as a blog specialized on a single topic. In my opinion there are comments that are worth even more than the post written by the author.

Beyond the quality, many times I found myself in front of a parade of comments-requests to bots like BEER, PIZZA and so on that in my opinion have no value or better, are in all respects a reward for a previous comment or post.
In my opinion, these comments should be excluded from the calculation, as well as those less than a certain number of characters, I do not know if this is possible.

Then one thing I didn't like on this platform, is the abuse that some (few) curators make of tipu, autovoting their own qualitatively silly posts or those of their alt account, I consider them little more than beggars, but I think that's a matter for another post. Indeed, there is only to thank @cardboard for his work and for what he has brought forward.