Hey thanks for giving it a try!

I have quite a few more usecases lined up for it to revive a few communities in the past that'll fit perfectly for commentrewarder, will post about it shortly! 

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> Much as some folks might want to disagree, Hive's backbone seems very much to be the social content sites.

Can't disagree with this. Users are mostly write and publish then leave until it becomes a cycle.

I usually comment and reply to make sure the engagement alive. Sometimes I feel that I want people to read my content than receiving a huge amount of upvote.

Great pointing out the benefits that the Comment Rewards brings to the Hive blockchain and I believe that it acts like an energy drink: everything is taken to the next level and people are engaging more. This is the way!

This @commentrewarder is very friendly. I have benefited from it

@denmarkguy, I paid out 7.445 HIVE and 1.465 HBD to reward 17 comments in this discussion thread.

You kind of ponder, "What is Hive? " To me, it's number 1 use is s a blogging tool. Here is a place to write something and it's there immutably into the future. That can't be said about a blogging website. Plus you might earn a couple of rewards. 

This is how I used Hive for the first 2 or 3 years, as a one way thing. And that's fine. But as you say,  it wasn't until I started interacting that my follower account started to grow. That's the key to follower size and getting rewards. 

As far as content rewards, it's got to be a good thing. Incentives yield results.  Now I just need to remember to do it when I write. 
!LUV 

I got started in early 2017 too. Things were more socially active back then (even when you ignore all the "Nice Post" comments you had to wade through to get to genuine interactions). But a whole lot has happened since then and Hive still has a community, or multiple communities, and massive potential for growth. Sometimes it can feel like there isn't much point to commenting, especially when not everyone responds but I can envision comment rewarder making a difference over time.

Hi, @denmarkguy I have used it in all my posts and it works well,

I recommend it.

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I think commentrewarder is a great initiative to stimulate engagement on Hive.
When comments get rewarded more people will have an extra incentive to engage more (although I doubt if a financial reward is a good incentive).

A 'shortcoming' of commentrewarder is the fact that a post needs quite a bit of author rewards in combination with a higher percentage for the commentrewarder beneficiary to result in a payout for the commenter. As you might know values under $ 0.02 are considered as dust and will not be paid out.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think commentrewarder will work for new Hivers.

I'm also working on an idea to improve engagement on Hive. As soon as I have more details I will publish a post about it 😊

I may or may not have missed the @commentrewarder period, as I think it's 3 days, but whatever.

I've been trying out @commentrewarder myself. I like it so far. Although I wouldn't go so far as to enabled 25% reward. I'm still trying to rebuild my account after a long hiatus and having to sell my Hive to pay bills.

I hope that it will help with getting engagement with posts. I haven't seen that much so far but I may just need to slowly rebuild my account as many of my followers are likely inactive now.

Even though it's likely only a few pennies, it matters. People play a lot of those pay  to earn games for pennies at a time. I wouldn't mind a bunch of minnows interacting if they can provide proper engagement.

I'm also gonna try to interact with more posts myself. Try being the key word.

I'm planning to experiment with commentrewarder on my next post. I just need to make sure a certain spam farm is excluded...

"Blimey, Ahh'm nae sure Ahh kin it aw, but it has tae be guid mince!" 😉 -Keptin
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Thanks for reminding me about commentrewarder.  I'm going to try it for the first time in a post I'm planning.  I like your comprehensive list of commentrewarder benefits and I agree with the ones you list.

I've been here 8+ years and I did reply a Lot more back in the early days. Most of the people I was interacting with in the comment section have left.  I reply a lot less but sometimes I do a reply with many more words than my normal posts.

Regarding rewarding commenters, I have UP voted many/most of the comments people have left on my posts, to reward the engagement.  I suspect some people comment on my posts because they know this, and would not otherwise reply.

I like commentrewarder because the rewards come from the author and not the reward pool. 

There is something similar going on for over a year at @tokenfaucet.  Replies are rewarded by private funds and not the reward pool.  Their last post from 9 days ago got 308 replies.  Many are just the !TF reply that triggers rewards but there are also fun conversations that spontaneously arise.

https://peakd.com/giveaway/@tokenfaucet/higher-rewards-tokenfaucet-giveaway-is-now-bigger-and-better

Anyone can check it out if they want.  You'll need to have a reputation of 30+ to get a reward.  That's the only gatekeeping that goes on.  Anyone with a rep of 30 or more gets something for free. Unless there's a major run on the post and the account's tokens run out!

Let's see how your experiment goes!  Feel free to try the @tokenfaucet experiment.  Have a nice weekend! :)

I set commentrewarder in one of my posts but it seems it wasn't seen by readers or people are not yet aware of this initiative. My engagement did not improve. I'll try again in my next posts to see if it works. 

@commentrewarder sounds like a great project and initiative on Hive!

Curated, upvoted, and reblogged for exposure 

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>However, it feels like the social part used to be a lot more active some years back than it is today.

Every effort shall be made to make my comment not only civil but gentle as well. It seems like we both agree that the STEEM pre-HIVE days were more active, engaging and all around more exciting than the present state of the social media aspect of the blockchain.

There is no python generated pie charts for me to factually and statistically prove my point, yet taking the community and splitting it asunder by approximately 20 self centered individuals that did not want to loose control of their asset printing press might have had something to do with HIVE's present state?

The fork also highlighted the flaws in the PoS governance system and that one would be just as safe leaving their tokens in an exchange wallet as one that the same grubby (approximate) 20 individuals have control to edit upon will. Who would even think of buying HIVE as any kind of crypto investment with that grubby bunch ready to abscond your funds at will?

At best it is a utility token and the social media element will be soon seen (if not already) as just another Dapp, with gaming and other Dapps eventually leaving the social media users in the same light as we might view loyal AOLers. They still exist to this day!

You will find me posting almost daily here, so this is not a hater talking. There are people here that mean as much or more as folks known in RL. But let's call a spade a spade and see this as the failed "experiment" as the creator who walked away from it himself called it.

Anything that brings out meaningful engagement gets my upvote.

I have been using the new @commentrewarder service for about a week now and as I am new to Hive it has helped me to give out some extra rewards to people who make the effort to comment on my posts. As my stake is quite low, despite already buying around 800 Hive and powering it up, it means I can't give out a meaningful vote by way of appreciation for comments on my posts. 

This is exactly where @commentrewarder can step in and help out. It's been a really helpful service. It means that despite having a low stake I can still give out something a little more valuable as a reward to commenters of my posts. I now always put at the bottom of each post: **This is a Commentrewarder engaged post. Comments on this post will receive a tip on post payout.** 

I do this so it's very clear that I am using @commentrewarder. However, I have already had what I think might be comments on my posts designed purely to grab some extra tips. So you have to be careful when liking comments to ensure spam or tip grab comments that are meaningless and not constructive are not upvoted, and therefore don't get the tip.

But that's the great thing about @commentrewarder you are in control of who gets the tips. So long as comments are constructive in some way then they'll get a vote from me and therefore a tip when the post pays out.

Honestly my esteemed friend @denmarkguy. The truth is that I have to confess that I've been a bit surprised and a little confused by your positive and optimistic appreciation and review towards @commentrewarder if it really is about fulfill each one of the bullet points in your post.

I dunno, perhaps these are  just things of us the older and more decrepit chaps like me. But I wrote an article about this same topic two weeks ago and whose link I will give it to you only if you are really interested in reading it. But in my opinion, trying to forcefully *gamify* in this way a perfectly healthy and normal "social network" with a traditional organic community of actual persons and a collective human experience whose personal, conscious and organic activities and interactions should occur fluently and naturally among living human beings without coercion, blackmail or bribery of any kind, these initiatives and projects seems to me to be completely wrong and out of order.

The "commentrewarder & reblogrewarder" projects seems to me to be absolutely toxic, harmful and counterproductive to establish true relationships, interactions, engagement and activities of authentic quality and trust in a "social network" between humans.

I don't know about you bro, but I'm certainly not interested at all in meaningless chatter, smalltalk or annoying flattering. Nor that I have to waste my time and attention answering their babbling and nonsense to an army of parasites and brainless leeches who only come to comment on a post exclusively in search of an upvote. As was already mentioned by @peaceandmoney above when he said: *"I have already had what I think might be comments on my posts designed purely to record some extra tips"*

Well, to tell the truth, I'm actually pretty sure that you had already considered all of this that I've told you here. But for whatever reason, I see that you've been inclined to just outline a more positive view. :)

Cheers!!