I agree with the premise of your post. By engaging, you are also networking with other people on the platform.

I think one of the main problems here is that everyone wants to be a creator and not a consumer since there is money involved. With bid bots running around, it gave people another way to play solitaire in the system, but my experience has shown me that having diehard followers beat spending time to bid any day.

I think most of us appreciate interaction from other people, or even critique of our works. Maybe I'm wrong?

For people like me, I am more interested in being entertained by the content I'm exposed to. Although, I do enjoy blogging casually.