Top Comment Voters | Who is rewarding comments?
Recently there has been a push in rewarding comments more. We want engagement and rewarding genuine comments is a crucial part of this.
Here we will be looking into who is voting on comments the most. By number of votes but also by votes weight. Data on voting on own comments, self voting will also be presented.
Making a meaningful comment on other people’s post can go a long way. Pro tip for newbies: Post a little, comment a lot.
One of the cons of the HF22/21, the curve and 50/50 split is that comment rewards are being hit. Let’s see how is comment voting doing these days. Who is voting/rewarding comments the most?
The period that we will be looking at is May 1 till May 23, 2020
Number of comments votes per day
Here is the chart for the number of comments votes per day.
On average there is a 3616 comments votes per day in the period analyzed. For comparison there is more than 200k votes daily in total. A small share of votes goes on comments.
The overall trend seems to be stable not going much up or down.
Top Comments voters by number of votes
Here is the chart for the top comments’ voters by number of votes.
The @adm account is on the top with 1547 comment votes in the period. Looks like this account is connected with @hivewatchers and its voting their comments, as a part of the fighting spam. The @sc-fund is on the second place and next comes @hivebuzz.
Self votes are excluded from the numbers above.
Here is a chart for accounts that voted their own comments the most in the period.
The @joebboy is taking the unpopular no.1 place here, followed by @olumzy and @entropia. Although these accounts seems to not be holding some significant amount of stake.
Top Comments voters by votes weights
The number of votes doesn’t tell the whole story, since the vote weight is important as well. Votes coming from account with 100HP and with 1M HP are not exactly the same 😊.
Here is the chart for the top comments’ voters by votes weight.
Note: The values for the weight are technical parameter, not HP. It should be looked as indicator.
The @adm account comes on the top here with a significant difference. As mentioned above it is a part of the @hivewatchers initiative. On the second place is the @nrg account followed by the @mmmmkkkk311. Some others well know community members on the list as well.
The chart above is the most telling who is rewarding comments the most.
Great job from the accounts above!
The chart for the top self voters by votes weight looks like this.
The no.1 in this unpopular ranking is the @brazilians account, followed by @xels and @nulledgh0st.
Not a large stakeholders, but still, not cool. Guys you can do better than this 😊.
All the best
@dalz
This is some cool information thanks. I am looking forward to the day when I have enough stake to go for comment voting. I think 10k HP is a good entry point for me to do that. Interesting that I only interact with Taraz of that list lol
You are welcome :)
10k is a nice number.
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https://twitter.com/Dalz19631657/status/1264714211793481730
For the most part, there's definitely not enough engagement on this platform and rewarding comments is the easiest way to boost this.
I give 25% upvotes on all comments made on my posts to try and stimulate engagement and I encourage other content creators to do the same.
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Yea true ... users are focused a lot more on posts than comments.
The thing is other than the author of the post, its is very rare that other users vote comments on other people posts. Otherwise authors do tend to reward comments ...
I'd say that it isn't really the job of randoms to reward good comments though.
Looking at encouraging engagement from a purely economic perspective I see the following:
You're never going to get a good curation reward on a comment, so there's less incentive to upvote a comment on someone else's post.
By upvoting comments on your own posts, you're still not going to get good curation rewards, but you're encouraging people to come back and most likely upvote your main posts, thus giving you higher author rewards.
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Yep ... pretty much ... networking.
I personally do some semiautomatic voting ... love the freedom to give some inefficient votes :)
I do as well, all human commentors get a vote above the dust treshold.
If I got more comments, I might be able to make it on a list like that. 😂
With a lot of time and persuasion .... of you go :)
I think the engagement is catching up more and more and I hope it will be better in coming months. But yeah voting self is ok to some extent, but too much is not ok
Self voting comments is reward pool exploitation.
Pathetic they cannot find something better to do with their HP.
Hopefully they are also being downvoted to negate the undeserved rewards.
The oldest trick in the book :)
I love seeing so many members of the CTP Community on the top list there...They are amazing people that believe in paying it forward and supporting engagement across the map!
So happy to see them up on that list. We may fly under a lot of radars on HIVE but we're passionate and each one of them are embracing this HIVE journey so much! From their challenges they've started, to the initiatives to create more engagement. Wow, I'm thrilled to see them crushing it!
@ph1102
@russellstockley
@flaxz
@lisamgentile1961
@bradleyarrow
You guys rock!!!!!
Thanks
Great job from you :)
Thanks Jon, and you rock too, keep up your awesome work.
@dalz thanks for sharing this. I make post and also comment. I had 304 comments last week according to the Hive Engagement League by @abh12345 and I came 14th position too. i believe that is a way to interact with people and make good friends. I have had contacts with a lot of people on hive and this makes me happy. I am not after the post making but to meet people , share ideas and also develop myself here.
Regards
What a great post , fantastic to see stats like this they are encouraging and show the growth on Hive has been outstanding
Wow. I did not know I was even in the list! Thanks to @jongolson for pointing this out to me. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy about what I am doing on Hive! Thanks. Need to follow you!
Congrats!
You have done a nice job voting those comments :)
Thanks
I'm surprised I didn't make the list, but maybe it's that I don't get that many comments. I give bigger % votes to comments than posts.
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Thanks @crokkon!
Yes I have noticed that there is a tendency some of the authors to reward comments with some tribes tokens.
So yea that as well. About the threshold, I really cant tell where exactly that is :) with these price changes all the time.
But for sure there is a lot of votes under that limit.