I was recently inspired by a post I read by 
The title is self explanatory, I have noticed as a new Steemit user that I have made more money from commenting compared to posting, so I wanted to see what my experience would be like if I spent a day solely commenting.
Now there is way too much spam on Steemit already, and I do not wish to add to this. I looked at many posts throughout the day and set myself a goal of posting 50 relevant and (hopefully) insightful comments on posts that I found of interest.
The Results
In my day of commenting, I was able to initiate a genuine dialogue on 19/52 (~36%) of my comments. I achieved success in two forms:
Followers
This was most important for me, my follower count increased by 8, which was a 13% increase. Not bad for one day right?
To me this is not just a number on a screen, yesterday I remember having interesting conversations with at least 6 of these new followers who are like minded and I feel on the same wavelength as me.
Cash monies
Here is a summary of the payouts across my posts, 19 votes achieving a total SBD value of $3.56.
Over USD 10 for a day of intermittent commenting from an account that is less than a month old.
Final thoughts
On Steemit you can’t be the awkward guy in the corner, you have to get out there and start a conversation. Build a dialogue with someone, make some friends.
In that aspect I see Steemit is working as intended, you are rewarded for posting insightful comments that help to build the narrative and spam comments are relegated to the bottom of the comments sections. I appreciate there is abuse on both ends of the spectrum but no platform is perfect, and there are many people who are continuously fighting the good fight against scammers/spammers.
In addition, I also started to follow more people yesterday. Again given the monetary awards on Steemit, it is an attractive platform to spam low effort/plagiarised content. This is a big downside for Steemit in my opinion, as it becomes much more difficult to kind engaging content. I believe you really have to work on curating your own feed, so you don't have to rely on trawling through the "new" section of tags to find quality content.
Once you have a solid set of authors to follow, your feed is all you need!
What has your experience been posting/commenting? What tips can you share? Can we chat?