As a former (well, I'd like to think so!) introvert who was never active on other social media I wouldn't know what an amusing comment actually looks like! Well, perhaps my role model for amusing comments is wint. Or is that just what one would normally call comedy? Hm.
As for speaking one's mind, well it seems the stronger your opinions are the more likely you are to suffer when you meet a similarly opinionated (or simply vindictive) opponent higher up the STEEM ladder. Though it should be noted that this system has resulted in less feuding and more civility from the most common and casual offenders that you see on other platforms. I suppose when these things happen on this platform any conflict that would be par for the course elsewhere gets blown out of proportion.
Uh, now I'm looking back at @kabir88's post and the points I wanted to make are basically everything he already said below (or above?). So yeah, basically that.
Except! Where he says "Perceived value", unfortunately I don't think it's just "perceived" -- current STEEM blog interfaces limit comment engagement by design, as you can't for example, re-steem someone's comment with an added description or ready response of your own like twitter or tumblr do. I mean you can mention or quote them in a post, but it doesn't organically link to the original post as in those social networks. Adding to that most people naturally seek validation from the original author first and his commenters second and are aware that others will do the same. In short, on another social networks a comment in the chain has the potential to be more visible and promoted than the original post, but that will never happen on STEEM (for now?).
(ramble ramble ramble, I need breakfast, fast! have a good day, folks who took the time to read this!)
Being able to resteem comments would be a great feature @eccles!