Why comments are important
Meaningful comments are the backbone of Hive. They show engagement, create connections, and bring conversations to life. It shows someone read your post, took the time to think, and wanted to share their thoughts. That’s what builds real connections. That’s what makes Hive feel alive.
Meaningful comments are often under-rewarded. Especially compared to the rewards that blog posts can get. We believe that when someone takes the time to read a blog and writes a meaningful reply, they deserve to be rewarded for that. With the 
How Topcomment works!
The Topcomment curation team performs manual curation. We collect longer comments via a script in our curation Discord channel, but we do check every comment if it deserves an upvote.
Just commenting "Great post!" doesn't meet the requirements. The commenter should genuinely engage with the blog they are responding to. It must show that the blog has been read.
We upvote comments in all languages, so AI translations are not needed. We don't upvote comments that are or seem AI generated.
We also avoid upvoting comments on controversial topics such as wars, politics, hate, or conspiracy theories.
Nominating comments
There are quite a lot of comments on Hive daily and unfortunately we cannot upvote them all.
What you can do is nominate a comment you think deserves an upvote from us. This can be a comment on your own post, but also on someone else's. You only cannot nominate your own comment 😉
You can nominate a comment by replying to that comment and mentioning
A nomination doesn't mean the comment always gets an upvote. It does have to comply with our rules for upvoting and we do need to have enough Voting Power.
Support with a delegation
We want to give away high upvotes, but to do this we need your support!
We currently have 63 delegators supporting
Every delegation helps us reward more meaningful engagement on Hive. Every delegation is appreciated!
We return 80% of the curation rewards to our delegators. You will receive this on a daily basis in liquid Hive.
You can delegate via the pulldown menu in your wallet or via the crypto-dreamr delegation tool:
https://tools.crypto-dreamr.com/delegate
Some examples
If you still don't know which comments our curators are looking for, there's a couple of great examples below.
Keep on engaging!