Since Steemit is a social platform, I sincerely believe that communication and interaction with each other is something that should help it develop and move forward. Oh, and quality content of course:-)
And I'm glad that there are people who understand this. Sometimes there is really nothing to discuss if it's a post with just a beautiful photo? what's the point of writing a "good post", upvote will be enough to say it.
But if the author touches on an important topic, asks the readers' opinion, this means he is really interested. And if you have 1,500 readers, but only 5-10 of them sometimes vote for your posts or write comments, does this mean that all those of them who remain does not even read them? Then why did they become your subscribers? Maybe we all should review our own subscriptions...