Reward your comments, it is worthwhile

I haven't posted a lot lately. As a matter of fact, i haven't posted a lot at all. I have my reasons, perhaps someday I will write about them.
However, I read a lot of posts. Lots of posts from the people I follow, because I follow them for a reason (namely: because at some point I thought they were writing posts worth reading). I also read a lot of posts in the 'active' category. I don't know why, but at some point the 'active' button was removed from the GUI, you can still find it at https://steemit.com/active . Posts that are not necesarilly 'hot' or 'trending', but just 'active', meaning posts that people upvote, reply to.

One thing I notice is that a lot of people that post don't ever upvote or reply to comments they get on their posts. This is disencouraging I think.

I think it was @cryptoctopus a while back that made a great post about engaging with your audience, creating a loyal following. It is worthwhile to reward the people that actually reply to a post you make, reward them, it is just a click of a button, and it the process you probably discourage the 'followed, resteemed' crowd.

I am a bit in a 'project self-censorship' at the moment, but have had some times where I had some urge to respond to a quality post but did not due to the lack of serious interaction I noticed before.

Anyway,
Hope this helps,

-k