I try to upvote any comment that looks like it came from a real reader. If it seems like an opportunity for conversation, I reply as well. Like this, in fact. There are a few commenters on this very post I may block for their trend of empty replies.
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I can tell which those are. I wonder if there are accounts out there that would give them an upvote? And since the opportunists see that you upvote some comments, they leave any kind of comment on your posts.
I'd like to upvote more comments, without seeming to pander for comments, but with hive so low, it's hard for me to do that. I prefer to leave 100% upvotes on posts, and engage with good comments. Some of us can go on and on, which is fun.
My default upvote on comments/replies is 10%, which is well above the 2¢ dust cutoff. Sometimes I vote higher.
My default vote is 75% on top-level posts. I may adjust that up or down based on myriad factors including how much I plan to curate that day, how much I like the content, or just my petty subjective opinion about the effort in a post.
When my upvote gets high enough that 10% is well over dust level, I'll probably start upvoting good comments too. Until the recent rise in hive's value, I gave 100% to almost all published posts that I liked (unless they'd already earned a lot), but have reduced that to 75% for many of them now. I love to upvote small, new accounts, who will get a warm and fuzzy from my whopping (to them) ten cent upvote.