I also dislike people who judge too much when "influential users" get a lot of comments saying "they're just commenting for the sake of an upvote", like yeah, that's fine, that's literally the way hive power is supposed to work. Doesn't mean everyone is just fishing for votes or that the comments are less valuable. There's plenty of engagement on literal new users as well even though they have no votes to give and as mentioned in the previous comment, there's minnows with way more engagement than whales at times, attention can work in many different ways but if you don't curate your comments just to not get "the wrong crowd that's only there for the upvotes" you're not really using hive power well. You can of course choose not to and that's fine, or you can just curate the ones you feel are good and ignore the ones u feel are automated/disingenuous/etc.