Very clever! And even though this post “lets the cat out of the bag” few will do it anyway

Excellent post my friend, i agree with your thoughts and also like to mentioned that front-running comments also creates a win win situation both for the commentator's and curators as well and i see many steemians are just love to curate the posts instead of creating the content and as now you officially gave permission to curate the good comments i hope now we surely see more genius curator's will take benefit from this opportunity and should earn handsome amount of steem by up voting comments too, wishing you all the best for all of your future endeavors! my friend, Stay blessed

Well I guess yeah that is the right thing to do, I can't stop my self from replying to a good comment.
It also gives you a chance to interact.

Wel..............l I guess yeah that is the right thing to do, I can't stop my self from replying to a good comment.
It also gives you a chance

Our followers is the best asset we have on world wide web, that's why we should try to engage our audience. It's hard to reply each and every comment but we can reply to comments which are really contributing or enhancing our articles. 

There are many commenters who really adds value to our blog with their knowledgeable comments. 

I love to comment on blogs because that's my way of appreciating their hardwork.

Commenting also helps to increase our followers. Isn't it @cryptoctopus?

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that's great to engage with the commenters :) and help them along

This is great initiative from you, so you can help a "little" guys. Often times, the little guys are overlooked and it is nice to see that there is still people who care about them.

I always upvote my commenters.  But then again, I have very few commenters, and so extra care I spend.

But, but, now that we have a linear voting algorithm, I can move a comment into getting at least 2¢ and thus, they get money, and I get a curation.

That would be the greatest things I ever heard here on steemit.  Steemians really engage in every post you made.

It's interesting that at your scale of operation, you can write something like this and incentivize more of us to do that, which (I think) is a win for everyone involved. Lower-value people can't, but then they (we) don't have so many people following them and posting garbage comments -- it's easy to weed through the two or five that I might get. 

I'm curious, how often do you flag/downvote something? (How much upside does that practice have?)

Hm... do comments work exactly like posts in term of payouts? I never considered that one could have comment-upvoting-strategy as well :) 
I wonder if people know that, because many do not upvote comments to their posts. I always do. It's just a kind thing to do, I think, but I never saw it in a strategic way before.

We need more people like you , thanks for explications and for the helpful photos .
Have a nice evening

you are a nice person, your all post I liked, all people like you  
@followed and upvoted for you

You have to wait 30 minutes for the max curation rewards on comments? Are you sure about that? Cause I've asked around about this previously, and as far as I know this restriction doesn't count on comments.

I like the way you appreciate the comments of your followers, for me it does not matter if the post owner does not upvote my comments and I will continue to comment on every good post I like

That guy is inderdaad genius, frontrunning the comments. I wish
 * it was my idea
 * I had time to do that (you’ll get this once the little one had arrived)

Interesting that you should post about it and *up-top* for acknowledging someones brilliant idea where others might see a nuisance.

I try to upvote anyone who comments on any of my posts yet there still seems to be a lack of engagement. More voting power for me I suppose :)

To be honest, while you just started the next _big thing in curation_, I would rather be the one who adds value and maybe even gets an upvote. 

Commenting is both a good mind exercise and can most definitely add value.

Haha if only I could get esteem comments working again I'd save my roughly $.20 esteem upvote you get once a day for your post to make it closer to the top of your comment section. I wish I could claim to be the smart person who figured this out, but  alast it wasn't me.

If you don't read or upvote comments made on your own post then you are NOT engaging your fans or audience.  Authors should realize this.................

Brilliant! By acknowledging the genius of the one who was frontrunning your comment upvoting you have greatly increased the engagement of your comment section and consequently the rewards of doing so. Now your comment section looks a lot more like the way comments did back a year and a half ago when there was much less spam and much more interaction. If more whales (and everyone else too) would take the time to reward those who post thoughtful comments, maybe the comment spammers would learn and become productive Steemians instead of trying to grab a quick penny or two.