Saved Reddit Posts Series - Introduction and Details

Hey everyone!

Wanna start off with some history of my previous social media experience and how it has affected my Steemit experience and what I have been focusing on to increase user interactivity.

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As some of you might know I used to be a very active Redditor back in the day. I remember the first time I stumbled upon it over 8 years ago and how it back then already looked a lot better and more entertaining than facebook and digg. After lurking for a long time I decided to finally create an account and start posting. Many back in the day were really into posting content on Reddit and receiving link karma for it, I wasn't much of a content creator myself and re-posting others content just to gain karma points didn't feel like my thing. What I did love about it though was the comment section, it wouldn't matter if a post was a re-post, if the content wasn't of great quality - the comment section never let you down. With the increase in users the general quality in comments grew and grew and that's what I focused on myself as well.

I recently had my 6 year Reddit cake-day which coincidentally was on the same day as Steemits birthday and my 10 months being a member here, I also managed to break 100k comment karma!

Now coming from Reddit and all the social medias that it made obsolete I think its needless to say why I got so addicted to Steemit and compared to all other communities out there that allow for anonymity (youtube, digg, pinterest, instagram) I have found that the community here is so much nicer in general and have made so many more contacts and connections with users than on all others combined.

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I was in favor of the comment reward pool because I believed the quality of comments and the effort put into them would grow with it and the interactivity of users on authors posts as well - but since that didn't happen I have started using my trail to vote on comments a lot more actively instead, and I am certain that it will improve the interactivity of users on posts and discussions a lot more over time and hope many other curators will follow my steps and reward comments accordingly. (the last statistics I read about it before the hardfork were that comments were receiving a measly 2% max compared to the posting and curation rewards, I can't wait to raise that number over time.)

Checking on steemviz.com for pending comment payouts in 1 week I feel many users share and have shared the same experience that I do:

For those who are in a similar position like me where you enjoy commenting and interacting with others a lot more than creating content or posting and building your brand through that, it must feel a bit unrewarding in comparison to the rest of posting rewards.

Here is an snip from Steemitboards, I check this site since it differentiates between posts and comments. These are my statistics after 10 months on Steemit.

I am sure there are many others out there who use Steemit more of a Social Media aspect, and I hope many will start posting more freely and use it the same way as they would use their facebooks, youtubes, etc.

Although I know this may only be a tiny issue right now because of our small user-base but I think rewarding users for comments and interactivity goes a long way to build a solid platform!

With that being said I wanna talk about this Series that I want to start sharing with you.
During these 6 years of active Redditing I have come across a lot of posts and bookmarked and saved many awesome ones that I consider my favorites, this includes videos, images, gifs, etc but most importantly I also want to share my favorite comments from those posts and how in many cases its them that 'make' the posts great.

I hope you will find it as entertaining as I do/did and I will be sourcing back to each and every thread so that you can read more about it if its a post that interests you. I'm going to use images for the comments to be able to credit other users who like me love to comment and interact. :)