> Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to direct

> Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. Other commenters have said many of the things that came to mind, so I'll leave the discussions in those threads. One thing I haven't seen discussed yet - what financial incentive do you have in mind here? Given the rest of your post I'd assume you want to incentivize quality comments, but it's not clear to me why this scheme would do so as opposed to popularity/snark/one-liners/etc. It feels a bit similar to Reddit awards - spending money to give something of ~value to the commenter - and I'm not very confident those have done much, if anything, to incentivize quality comments on Reddit.