Actually, no - commenting is also called "curating" and if you keep doing it, you can make a good amount doing it - check out @curie to learn more - also - people who plan on staying on steemit DO read comments - that's how you build a REAL following - and become friends - then you talk to people on steem.chat and on the discord app - but this is for the long-distance runners like myself - not for the spammers and fakes we currently have an influx of.