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RE: You can Freewrite, but can you Freeread?
I think with the number of people on steemit right now, the only truly consistent focus is steemit itself, unless you have the SP to gain followers looking for votes. That's generalizing abit, but especially true for newcomers in different niches.
That's why I like to do a bit of both when it comes to voting and interacting, I'm interested in a variety of things so it really helps make it easier. But ya, I comment on people's blogs who have a high vote more often than I probably should. I see it as growth. At the same time I try to support content I love and find interesting an equal amount.
Interacting with the community is great. How else are we going to find similarly-minded people if we don't comment on each other's posts? I'm definitely guilty of all what I mentioned. But then I want to interact with someone who wrote an interesting article and I have to compete for attention with people (oh, I wish they were all people) replying stuff like "Great post, I upvoted you!" or "This is the best post on Steemit, I followed you!"
It's discouraging, but we all probably realize that Steemit has not yet reached its final form we should try to influence the direction for the best.
those kind of posts only bother me when they are on a blog where the blogger always autovotes his comments, so these crap comments sometimes make big$ because they were first because it's a bot... Otherwise I see them get flagged a ton haha, it's a losing strategy long term so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
And too true, we are going to see some major evolution this year as we get more users and the platform develops with communities SMT's and quicker sign up