Writing posts is hard but sometimes it seems to me that writing comments is even harder. Because of that, I’ll give those of you who struggle with it a handy little guide to writing a comment on steemit.

• Actually read the post you’re leaving a comment on and try to understand the content

• Don’t comment something that’s missing any reference to the actual post, the author will think that you just copy&paste it everywhere in the hope that someone will upvote it. Bad examples below, avoid these:

• Don’t comment just to advertise your own post but it’s okay if your post has the same or a similar topic.

• Don’t just quote random passages from the post without actually saying something original about them.

• If something seems weird, check the tags. If one of them is "fiction", the things described in the post probably didn’t actually happen.

And last but not least:

• Upvoting your own comment looks pathetic, especially when you don’t upvote the post itself. Why not upvote someone else’s comment and do something for the community?

Of course, if know the author of a post personally, most of those points don’t apply. Friends can comment bullshit on other friend’s posts.

Happy commenting!

Disclaimer: Please see this post as a humorous attempt at venting my annoyance about comment spammers. I doubt that the people who are the actual problem won’t even read this. In fact, I’m expecting many dumb comments under this post.

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