I started to comment here and there on Steemit to participate a little more than just writing and voting (original plan) and I got disappointed.
I've noticed there is some very good comments, sometimes even better comments than the post itself. They should get, in a perfect world, the rightfully share of votes they deserve. On a average post merely interesting with a very good point bring by a comment, we shouldn’t see 100$ for the post and 3.21$ for the comment. Why do we see this kind of voting behaviour ?
Well, it’s obvious, 95% of steemers votes on interesting stuff THAT CAN MAKE THEM MONEY (short term view) !
The 5% left are already rich and are more focus on promoting interesting stuff that will increase the overall quality of the platform and … make them more money (long terme view) !
So, what do we do ? There two things we can do :
1. Keep on commenting only when we enjoy the interaction with others. Maybe when we feel is our duty as human being to share that very perspective we have. We knows we won’t have the rightful reward for being 20 minutes writing it down but we don’t care.
2. We can take the advantage of this very post to start a brainstorm in the comment section to elaborate solutions or half solutions that may be read by the dev of Steem. Maybe one day they will be implemented on this amazing platform we all cherish. The brainstorm won’t make you rich, probably won’t even make you win 1$. That said, if the brainstorn is productive, you may be on the way to change the things and in a near future be able to enjoy commenting and also be rewarded accordingly.
What will it be ?
I’ll start the debate in the comment section with this half baked idea :__
Why we don’t have two separated voting power, a big one dedicated to vote on posts (let’s say 80% of the actual one) and a small one dedicated for comments (let’s say 20%) ? That would push users to use their voting power also to vote on comments because if not, this portion of their voting power won’t be used, it would be lost.
It could be 90-10% or 85-15%. This should make the platform even more social and enhance the network effect of its propagation. People like to interact, they like social !
I want comments on the post, on my half baked idea and other ways to do that ! Let’s brainstorm Steemers !