Still here after 7+ Years and never left.
I guess this one could break the record of the post with the most comments on Hive. Something else that is needed one way or another is for accounts to get a score that measures contribution. It's crazy how many accounts there are who know how to play the game and get big upvotes from the curation programs without any intention to power up while just cashing out everything they earn. If comments are going to get rewarded more it likely will come with a flood of these users who only want to take. If somehow the contribution score is a deciding factor if their comments actually can get upvoted, it would give an actual incentive to power up and curate instead of just using Hive as a milking cow which keeps the price low.
Guess it's up to the authors to curate the comments properly.
This same argument can be made for the Curation Programs on Hive.
Just do the test, go to a random Daily Post from one of them were all the 'good quality posts' that got curated are lined up. Click on one of those posts, go to the wallet of that user. 8 out of 10 times, you will see limited to no investment and at least 1 cashout in the last weeks.
I'm not hating on anyone, certain content, or saying nobody can't cash out earnings. It's just that this dynamic of many users knowing how to make a post look good for them to get upvoted by the curation programs, and these curation programs mainly have these users on their radar as it's easy work to upvote something that looks ok. All this while there is a total disregard toward actual contributions (let's be honest, 99% of content doesn't really contribute) as everyone is just dumping Hive even at current price without any intentions to build their account and give something back.
All I'm saying is that having some kind of easy-to-check score that shows if a user helps or hurts the Hive Ecosystem without making it a witch hunt would help a lot.
I'm sure it's something people lay notice/judge whether they want to or not, we're people after all sharing the same token in the same ecosystem. I'm just hoping when new users arrive a % of them see the value in longterm holding and "dilute" out the constant dumpers.