I'm rather new here but I can only agree with you, especially regarding consistency and comments. Good comments are threads that lead readers from one post to the other and perhaps to yours ;)

Discord: I joined a German speaking discord rather early after my start here and the first weeks was only silently reading what people were writing. But the FAQ-channel there where all kinds of questions about Steem got answered helped me a lot. Most of them covered things I didn't know either ;)