I did start out a new account with 0 followers and 0 sp. It took me 1.5 years to get to this point.

I also didn't write multiple comments and multiple posts every single day..

I know how hard it can be for new people. Many of my posts have been re-steeming new users, giving advice, and helping people the best I can.

Please don't think for a moment I don't know how hard it is... I do know.

Here's a tip:

If I wrote shorter comments, I would not run into that problem.

If you wrote longer, more personable comments, and less of them, you'd probably get voted higher up for those ones.

...which would cause less of a need to do quantity comments rather than quality.

Study your posters. Look who gives great comment awards after writing their post and who doesn't.

Look at my blog as an example. Look at what I did here today even in this post. I don't upvote everyone, but those that do, get quite a nice upvote for me if I love their comment.

I'm going to upvote yours too now, because I appreciate your concerns. Hopefully you can understand my stance as well.