This is the easiest challenge so far because I know how many comments I do in a day and why I do it. I am a community-minded person and I believe together with upvotes, comments are something really important on the platform and this is the first lesson that I usually teach new people who join.
When I first started on the platform I wrote more posts and hoping that would get me more followers and of course upvotes. The thing is the majority of us here are content creators and getting your post some views are hard. So with not much views and comments on my own, I started commenting on other people's blogs.
At first it was people in my group and then I made the mistake of looking at trending (I know everyone hates the trending page now) and also checked the new and from there I saw interesting posts and new people to follow.
Since I was commenting on articles that I like and most of these people were like-minded we sort of started creating a relationship and I always look forward to seeing their posts.
Somehow I never went into the Follow for Follow comment because I really took the time to comment and leave my thoughts.
Now something that I noticed was even if my posts were not doing well I was still earning SBD and SP and looking back it was because some of my comments were being upvoted since they were bringing in some value to the discussion or giving my thoughts on a post.
I also discovered Steem.Supply at this point and was I surprised on my earning ratio!
A whopping 40% of my earnings was from comments and at that point highest comment payout I had received was $13! I was doing about 11 comments a day at that point.
This was a post I made four months ago detailing my plan on reaching 1000 SP.
1000 SP Goal! Steeming on!
You are creating worth and boosting the self esteem of other people and feeling more positive yourself. You are enriching the Steemit community with good content and relationships. Sounds naive, sounds like fluff and rainbows but to me that is humanizing the blockchain.
Although now the ratio of the amount I earn is more on post earnings now as opposed to comment earnings but I am actually commenting more. I peaked at 25 comments a day and now I do an average of 15-20 comments on other people's posts.
I firmly believe in the power of comments and know how it impacts people not just in terms of earning but in engagement. In fact another reason why I comment a lot is to keep people engaged and interested in the platform.
I am part of the The Curation and Engagement Leagues - More than 25 STEEM in prizes this week!
I am in the top 10 engagers in the league and do about 297 comments a week which translates to almost 42 combined comments a day!
Not only is this healthy for the platform but is also healthy for me because I remain engaged. A little healthy competition is always nice!
Backing this with data How to Engage and Retain Users ( Backed up with Steemit Data)
From this we can see that 107 accounts registered in 2018 and joined Ashers league. Of this almost 87% of accounts have remained active. That’s more than twice that of Steemit in general (and they are all human on Ashers league)
For the accounts that did drop off, the median drop of day is 46. That means that the people that do leave, don’t lose their interest as fast if they are in the league. In fact they stay over 2.5 time longer than people that do not participate.
So you see commenting is something very important. It is a way for you to support like-minded people who may upvote your comment and in turn become a follower. It keeps you engaged and enjoying your time in Steemit and best of all it is a great way to connect to people.
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