I would boil it down to this.

• “Listen and understand what is being said as you hear it. Stop thinking about what you want to say. Your words may seem more important than what you are hearing. The speaker doesn’t think so. In his view his words are very important. You should listen more carefully.”

Steemit is an example of this. Some newbies spend hours crafting wonderful and great thoughts in well written pieces on their pet topic. Then they get dissullusioned when nobody comments on what they said.

My question would be how many comments did the newbies make on other people’s posts which demonstated they had read it and had something meaningful to say? Many of them expect attention, without giving any.