Hi Dave
Indeed I used every possible method to promote my content here and reward all curators as much as I can. I tried to do the same with facebook.
If I use same content here and on FB and I will spent same amount of time and resources on both, then results will be very different.
All your points are pretty much (more or less) correct. But again: look at my posts about crowd machine or latest contest (around 30 people were commenting). Reading comments alone can take half an hour or even more.
For that reason I still believe Steemit rocks! Could I achieve with other social media platforms? Not really. Those comments = real engagement.
Dont get me wrong. Im not bragging about my skills / luck etc. It just it look like you're losing your spirit and I hope I can point out some reasons to make you believe in steemit again.
The problem is that you're huge expectations. I've been working as a social media marketer for quite some time and whenever Im talking to a client then Im explaining that if 2-5% of his followers will be genuine and engaging then it's already great result.
So if for each 100 followers 2-5 are engaging with you then it's a good result already.
Got your point there. Perhaps I need another account for crypto talks. Hehe.