RE: My Steemit Newbie Resteem Post - Week 17
If you figure out the comments thing, let me know, it has only been recent times that I have seen my comments move up out of the single digits myself. I think it really just takes time, and as a person's reputation grows, the more people want to interact with them. It would be interesting to see a breakdown on that, how a person's Rep, effects the number of comments they get. But I have seen and visited a lot of higher reputation post, and they have the same issue, a nice post and very few comments.
I guess all we can do is respond to the people that do visit and leave comments, and try to remember to leave comments on the post of people we visit. I think when people first join steemit, they are to afraid of making a mistake in comments, so they don't make comments. After awhile they start to see more and more real comments, and then they start to make comments. I think that is one of the nice things about @thedarkhorse's Pay It Forward contest, we go out find people, comment on the post and they then see that hey, it's okay to comment. It is one of the reasons I participate in the contest.
So we go out, and we educate people, show them through our actions that there really is nothing to fear. We keep in our minds where to send people for help if they run into trouble. And we grow slowly, but steadily, as we learn along with our teachings because when a question is asked, we sometimes need to go hunting to educate ourselves before we can educate someone else.
Actually there have been a couple of posts i made that i was really interested in just comments and not upvotes. Of course we are here to earn, but my main aim for now is to learn more than earn. Therefore i have been searching for comments and suggestions and criticism. I like your criticism because it made me reflect and change my way of posting & format.
Another thing i have been learning is that commenting must not be just a couple of words. This is not chat or just a contact. A comment is the feedback we receive for our work so just replying thank you, or just saying great, etc, won't make any impact on our post and our account name. I do respond to all of my comments. It does take some time for me to do that, but i never leave a conversation empty. Yeah, we do educate people by how we comment, respond, post, react and they will definitely learn. I know this because i learned. I was afraid of commenting. I was just upvoting. It doesn't make an impact on people.
Thank you for all the teachings i have been receiving so far from all of you. But i believe we never seize to learn. I am still learning.
A lot of new people fear the comment, I know I did when I first started, then I had a comment flagged, and well that puts the fear right back in to you, so it takes time, that I know for a fact. But we face it and we get over it, if we want to move forward. We learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others.