Hey, @practicalthought.

Yeah. Obviously, things aren't perfect anywhere and the league is no exception. By and large, though, I think it's one of the more active communities that are least trying to do more, if not succeeding at it. The idea or concept is awesome, but the execution of it can always be better. I think people believe the number of comments has more to do with than it does, or they'd pay less attention to how many they can do and spend more time saying something.

I haven't been very thrilled with the character per comment count a lot of people do, but then, filling a comment with nonsense isn't the way to go either, so somewhere there needs to be that happy medium where enough is being said to be meaningful.

Either way, it's a large time investment and those who do that tend to fall off over time, so we'll see.

re: votes.

I pretty much keep my upvotes close to 85% for the most part. Sometimes lower since I don't STEEM on Sundays, so I'll extend it beyond that. It just means I'm spreading the upvote around a little more, and since a lot of it happens on comments, and above the dust threshold, my voting power an go pretty quickly.

Again, you can upvote just to upvote, a shotgun approach to curation, or you can be strategic, knowing you're never going to give out what you think a post really deserves, or you can just try to help as many people as you can. That seems to be the way most people do it. I only upvote what I think should be upvoted, and I do it with what I have available in mind, and what's already on the post. Some really don't need more, I think, and others could use more than I can give. It's what we all run up against.

Okay, the majority of us. :)