Networking is the most important thing in social media, I've underlined that several times in my older posts. Commenting on posts is one minor step for building an audience, I think the chats are where the action is. It's my favorite means of communication because it's live and easier to reach a wide audience. Thus, Steemit becomes complimentary to the chat networks with the benefit of reaping rewards. When I started my journey on Steemit, I spent most of my time chatting, meeting people and making new friends. I had no expectations of making it big on Steemit, so even if I didn't succeed, I wouldn't have been disappointed. Perhaps it's not easy to have such a disciplined mindset, because people see the trending page with shit posts making hundreds of dollars, while they work their ass off to get noticed with quality posts. I blame the irresponsible people who trend their shit posts for giving minnows a false sense of hope and a promise that may be difficult to fulfill.