I think encouraging upvoting is a good thing. It helps to moderate the content on SN and supports the ecosystem behind SN.
I do not know if it is a good thing to make a split between posts and comments. Is not posting too much encouraged now because 1/3 is reserved for that? Obviously, there will be more comments than posts, so the rewards on posts will be much higher. Isn't there a risk that their will be too many nonsensical posts for the same topics?
It is great that this model is through so well. There is much more intelligence behind SN than the UI suggests.
Excellent analysis. I think you're right that comments will be more competitive and it might be better to make posts more competitive.
Overall it's an experiment and we can tweak all of this stuff overtime.
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