On the thought or engageing with comments, Steem ahve 1 weakness, being that after a sertain time, posts dont actually show up in new or hot or trending regardless if there is some posts on that topic. and from that and the fact that thee is overflow of articles, most stop engaging with comments on older articles even if there is ppl commenting on them.

you could call it a twitter sickness, being that when its over "given time" old, its out of date. even if the topic is still relevant. Its the same problem that exist in what is now called news cycles. "if its not in the news, its old and not important" (North East West South ? )