Curation Rewards

In the first two weeks of the @topcomment initiative I've already received a couple of delegations. This makes it possible to give away upvotes to the people that engage with the authors in the comment sections.

Thanks: Hive account@shanibeer Hive account@wesphilbin Hive account@michupa Hive account@detectblock

With a total amount of a 100% vote from Topcomment is worth $0.05 (0.16 HIVE) at the moment.

It would be nice to have some more delegators so I can give away more and higher votes. This is why I've introduced curation reward returns. Hive account@curamax already asked for it, but It's now realized with the help of @HiveDiscoMod which is run by Hive account@yaziris.
The bot automatically distributes 80% of the curation rewards to the delegators every day. The height of the rewards depends on the amount of HP you delegated.

Hive account@shanibeer Hive account@wesphilbin Hive account@michupa Hive account@detectblock you will receive your first payment tonight.

So if you also want to support this initiative and get 80% returns, feel free to choose one of the amounts below:

| 10 HP | 25 HP | 50 HP | 100 HP | 250 HP | 500 HP | 1000 HP | 1500 HP | 2000 HP |

How topcomment works

First of all I want to clarify one thing. Some people thought that Topcomment is run by a bot, but it isn't! I'm doing the curation all manually. This should prevents abuse of the rewards.

And than about the process itself: There are two ways that your comment can be upvoted.
Everyone who notices a high quality and engaging comment (more about this later) can mention @topcomment to nominate it for an upvote. Whether it will receive an upvote will depend on if I agree with you.

I've also created a HiveSQL script (with the help of Hive account@arcange, Hive account@pavelsku and Hive account@dlmmqb) where I can filter comments with a certain number of characters (and excluding automated comments). Large comments often indicate that someone has put some effort in his or her comment. Which takes us to the following subject: quality comments.

Which comments can get upvotes and which don't?

Not all nominated comments will receive an upvote from Topcomment.
Although quality this is quite subjective, there are a few characteristics that I'm looking for in a comment. And I also have some other reasons not to upvote a quality comment.

For now I apply the following rules:

1. The 'commenter' must have put some effort in the post
I've received a couple of nominations with for comment with just a couple of words. Although these reactions can be very valuable for the author, they are not eligible for an upvote from Topcomment.

2. The 'commenter' must have read the blog and comment substantively
The comment must contain a reaction to the blog. There must be an engagement with the blog from the author.

3. Post with hatred, racism or conspiracy are not upvoted!
I like to keep it positive, so none of the above subjects will get upvotes.

4. Comments and/or post from people that have Hivewatchers downvotes
I don't want to contribute to scammers or fraudsters. Receiving a downvote from Hivewatchers is a sign for me not to upvote the comment.

5. AI generated comments
This one speaks for itself. These won't receive upvotes.

6. Comment with rewards
If a comment already has quite some rewards I'll skip the upvote. Same goes for a comment that will be receiving rewards from the commentrewarder initiative.

7. Giveaways or contests
Entries for giveaways and contests are excluded for a topcomment upvote.

8. Comments not interacting with the authors blog
Comment that only tell the commenters story and where the commenter is not engaging with the author of the blog won't get upvoted by topcomment.

Following the Trail

If you don't want to delegate you can also choose to following the Topcomment voting trail via Hive.Vote.
This way you do support the project and the commenters, but you'll receive the curation rewards yourself. In Hive.Vote you can configure a percentage for the votes.
https://hive.vote/dash.php?trail=topcomment&i=1