RE: The 201 most prolific commentators on the Steem Blockchain (2018)
Commenting is where a large number of my rewards come from in one form or another. Either directly where I’ve had weeks of my comments being major of my rewards. Also indirectly people read my comments so they come over to my blog and toss one of them an upvote. I really wish more people would spend the time to enjoy it.
I'm right there with you. Sure I'm not making nearly the rewards as you, but honestly enjoy jumping into a conversation and seeing where it can go. Think that posts shouldn't be viewed as static content and once written all is complete, but rather a starting point to a conversation.
Also have more then a few times written a comment and then after reading it wondered why I didn't just create a post as it was so long. But again, it's about the conversation and if you break off into your own post the flow just isn't there.
Anyways, nice work making the list!
One of the big things I have notice are some people no matter how much time and effort was put into a comment they will never upvote it or even leave a comment back. They will however go and upvote one of your blogs. My blogs are not that great and I spend far too much time creating them. I would much rather just comment all day long and leave it at that. But some people rather reward my efforts by just auto voting my blogs or whatever means they wish to show support.
I have many large comments. Best thing about Steemit is the very short cycle and attentions span on it. If I wanted to one day start turning my comments into more polished blogs I still have that option. I am like you in that I rather add conversion directly then just create a blog. With that said I have made some of my former comments into blogs in past. Days or weeks afterwords and just polished it up a bit.
Good point about being able to recycle past comments and clean them up for a post. Will need to consider that at some point I think.
The only blogging I really enjoy is posting about cooking or photos. Both are things I enjoy doing so the blog part comes a little easier...and if I don't get many votes it doesn't bother me as much after spending an hour or more on them.
As for those that don't upvote comments no matter the effort. If I don't see something in return for my efforts like a reply or upvote I make a mental note. If that happens to many times then I will just stop investing my time in that person. No reason to give my votes or time to someone who shows absolutely no interest in reciprocating.
BTW, I added you to my follow list. Look forward to future conversations.
Steemusa community tends to do a lot with photos. In case you ever need some inspiration or ideas the comment section in blog has a nice list of some of them including tags used. Marketfriday tends to be a fun one that might even make a nice mingle with your love for cooking.
Thank you! Haven't seen that before. Will make sure to see what I can pull from there to help inspire more posting. Really would like to become a daily poster and help grow my followers some this way.