RE: Does replying to your comment supporters matter to get upvotes/rewards for your posts?
An essential note, by the way!
I've noticed that the more powerful the person is, the less often he replies on comments (though there're exceptions!)
Yes, you're right, not all comments are worth of replies, but there're rather logical and deep opinions, but they're left without any attention or even "thanks". It's a pity.
I am often in both situations: my comments are ignored sometimes, and sometimes they get a little upvote as a way of interaction or a reply.
Of course, I'm happy to have last two variants, the last one is even better for me, because I tries to express my thoughts about the topic, and when a person replies me, it means, it has touched me, and my words are somehow interesting for him.
When a person only writes posts without any interaction wiith his followers, it's sad. he is a money-maker only in such a case.
I tried to pay attention to all people who have supported me and who it now as well, even if they have low SP and can't give a profitable upvote.
Steemit is not only bussiness, it has much just about human relationships as well.
Do you agree?
Ot is it better to be here just like in a working place, trying to get profit?
Yeah popularity and less comments may seem to correlate :P Yes it's sad when they don't care to be courteous enough to respond to commenters :(
Steem is a business money making path for many, they don't care about adding useful content or interacting. I think it may take time for people to adopt a different approach than just trying to make money :)
do you think it's possible?-)
Moneymaking is in blood of most people nowadays, and Steemit isn't an exception unfortunately...
But you're right, struggle for quality content is necessary, otherwise, the platform will sink in trash posts.
There're cleaners and cheetah but it's not enough as we can see.
You know, I've come to Steemit from Golos (the Russian clon of it), and here they tried to fight for unique and good content by giving additional rewards to authors. There were some criteria: uniquness (plagiarisms programs tested it), the article or photos had to be published in Golos first (and then in other resources), and deep or interesting plot of the article.
This very program was initiated by one of whales, and was supported by founders of the platform. So authors got reward from that very fund, and there were curators who analyzed all posts, checked, tested, and gave rewards (or made notes for plagiarism).
It was great, and really stimulated people to write more and better.
The maintenance of it was expensive (but upvotes of whales covered it), but It really helped.
I was one of the curators there for some months.
The idea was cool, but it had too much critics from haters.
I left the platform soon when it stopped functioning.
How do you think it can be appropriate for Steemit? Or it's too big for it (I mean the number of posts and users). Golos is much much smaller.