Thank you @awesomianist for the super response.
I agree with what you say about the required time in the 'comment trenches', and feel that hardly anyone is safe from not commenting to further their progress.
What I worry about is good content producers giving up too soon having been missed by @curie etc for not quite reaching their standard.
A push to improve their work with small amendments could be all their need to be able to stand on their own in time - we need to find them all, together.
Cheers!
yep, no denying that! Tho at the current state Steem is, being so young. People are naturally still skeptical to the whole "scheme".
I actually do have met with exceptional writers (bloggers/crypto influencer) that told me they left steem because "its not worth the effort". that was in the early days i believe before there are other curation guilds than @curie.
Any "active" steemians must be a curator one way or another regardless of their level of engagement to Steem. either that, or as you suggested, delegate or at least set a trail pointed towards curators such as yourself. hehe