The substance of your points suck b/c they're hard truths, but it's affirming to read for this minnow here because I was starting to intuit the correlation between commenting and upticks in followers as well as the SBD+SP to be made doing so as I grow my network here. I'm sitting on several drafts of posts in Scrivener—I build the prose there and then paste the Markdown into Steemit to finish up the writing (as a side note I am now obsessed with reading up on other Steemians' workflows—), and I decided to dedicate today and probably tomorrow to socializing. I want to post so badly, but I don't see much of a point in putting stuff out there into the ether if it's not sparking the kind of conversations I want to see "adding value to the blockchain."
My question, though: I've done this before informally, and now I'm trying to actually track where I'm commenting and upvoting; I truly worry about appearing spammy when doing it, though. I'm an academic, so writing several ¶s in a comment is no issue for me b/c I can blab all day: I actually worry about being annoying af commenting all over the place, even if I'm targetting users with whom I think I share an affinity (topical, political, sense of humor, whatever). Any tips on best practices to avoid this issue, or getting over this neurosis (lol)? That's a general question. More particularly, because I enjoy substantive back and forths—and ideally, this would be happening more on my actual posts—how can I go about bringing people over to my page for conversation and debate without just being a spamming minnow?
Well, it's the difference between nodding and saying uh-huh throughout an entire conversation or reading what they have and making a comment about what resonates. Minnows are generally happy to even get a response let alone a thoguhtful one. I personally prefer memes and gifs. it's fast to post, quick to think of one to do, and typically gets rewarded well.
That’s actually great to know. I’ve been wary of gifs, but if you’ve got my phone # you basically only get gifs in response to texts. Great, and thanks.