I have been thinking a lot about some of the changes being suggested in the next hardfork, in particular the changes being proposed for comments.
As a fiction writer on steemit I am always trying to encourage people to comment on my story, so I can get active feedback as I write my first draft - this will be invaluable during the editing process.
One of the biggest incentives for me to start writing on here, was the opportunity to interact with readers and gain that much sought feedback.
We need to find a way to convert this voting on posts mentality into a voting on comments one - or at least more than it currently does.
This is why I think we need to do something - if it isn't splitting the reward pool to incentivise comments to gain a reward, than what?
I think more attention needs to be drawn to highly valued/trending comments, If we added an additional display option (like trending, promoted etc.) then we could give valuable comments more visibility.
Here's a quick mockup from 
of how this could look:
It could possibly feature the commenters profile pic for an image, a line of of the text of the comment - the same as in posts, instead of having a tag or the time it was posted it would show the title of the post the comment was made on.
I think this could not only incentivise comments, making them more visible -but it also highlights the posts that are generating valuable discussion.
This coupled with a small reward pool just for comments, could make a massive difference and encourage more people to not only be curators but active and dedicated commenters.
Though I do believe this could assist the situation, even without a separate reward pool as comments would be far more visible to be voted on.
I would love to know what everyone else thinks of this idea? Do you think it would be a valuable addition to steemit? Or do you have any other ideas or tweaks for this idea?
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