Make your Comments Count!

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I am guilty. Guilty as charged!

I write comments. Lot's of them. And very often, I tend to put lot's in my comments. Lot's of thought. Lot's of words. Sometimes so much that they could be articles in and of themselves.

Hence this EXTRA post: Here is how to make the best out of comments.

A lot of of times, our comments go unanswered. 😢 Sometimes it seems, entirely unnoticed. Forgotten. Some are upvoted. ✔

Most are not.

Let me ask you:

Do you read other Steemian's comments?

Secret Ingredients

I happen to think that the comment section is the vehicle for engagement. It's usually where we gain value followers. It's here, where we engage with others, add value to a post, agree, disagree, encourage - whatever the case may be - but hopefully enrich that post.

It is from comments that I often gain ideas for posts such as the one you're just reading.

Now, when I said I was guilty earlier, I really meant I was guilty of sometimes writing leeengthy comments. Yep. Very lengthy.

I start writing, add formatting to go easy on the eyes and, for my comment to stand out. And I add another paragraph, and sometimes another, even a photo I am taking just for that comment... and not to forget, sometimes, at the bottom:

My logo...

Nothing wrong with advertising, though I was, just today, rather harshly 'reprimanded' for doing so, being accused of spamming... @globocop a spammer? Ok. Interesting people... I unfollowed that fine Steemian, given that I added value to his post, and upvoted it. No thanks. But that's ok. 😎 C'est la vie. There are more appreciative Steemians out there.

...which brings me to my main point.

Keeping our comments short... No one reads looong comments. Perhaps the author does. But rarely readers who have just finished devouring your entire article. If the comments in a post I didn't submit are short, I skim through them until something catches my eye. But I am not the type that reads through leeengthy comments, especially not after just putting my 5 cents in...

Does this make sense?

Plusses for Everyone

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So, why not making your next comment an article submission?

If the comment you're jotting down inspires more ideas as you write, it's probably worth a separate submission. This has definite benefits:

1. Sharing your 'Comment' with many more people, especially if linked¹ back,
2. Gain recognition by
   2.1 more followers,
   2.2 more upvotes,
   2.3 increased reputation and thus:
3. Multiply financial reward - for them - and for yourself.

^{1 Explanation} Oh yes. Linking back. Important. Here it goes...

After publishing your submission, we want to go back to that original comment that inspired the article we just wrote...
and now reply to the original post.

Short, of course, adding the main points of our article and the link to our comment.

It's a branching opportunity we just created. The comment has become a subtle ad for our post - without begging - just commenting and referencing your detailed thoughts in our new article.

Sometimes I do this when I read a post about an article I had written before I read that post. Here is an example.

This concept is of course not applicable to one-liner comments. Self explanatory. Right? 🤔

What do you think? Should we pay more attention to comments and let comments:

Branch out to Grow New Fruitful Steemian Trees?

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Thanks for reading. 😎

ch @globocop

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