Discussed with @acidyo about how the upvote value should come into play.

We think it's best for the vote weight to be factored in, to give more control to the blog author.

An amazing reply could receive 100% upvote, for example and receive more reward than other replies (voted at 50% or less)

Another strategy for conserving voting power could be to vote each comment at 1% weight, and then CR will give equal weight to each comment.

We are implementing this change now.