You got a point there, @fyrstikken.
Either there are bots commenting already or some people write
"nice post" or similar things several times a day so that they can upvote their own comment.
Many users were complaining about the low quality of the posts lately.
A reward pool for comments seems a nice idea to boost discussion and interaction. People really dedicated would get rewards by their valuable comments and insights, while bad posts would be more and more ignored. But what I see is the same who posted garbage so that their followers' bots upvoted them, are now flooding everybody's comments with similar strategies.
I can understand why there are differents opinions on this subject.

The platform will be as good as the people using it. Every minute the developers dedicate to tackle people's weaknesses is a minute less they spend doing important work to improve Steemit.