RE: When you upvote - you make money - when you comment you make nothing?
I've made quite a bit of money with comments. Most recently ...
There are several others around that amount as well and on one early post I had nearly $1k for a comment before it was diluted down to a few hundred before the 7/4 payout. Most of the comments that receive high payouts are rather lengthy and go into a lot of detail.
For that reason it was established early on that it was more beneficial for not only the person commenting, but everyone on Steemit, if long comments were instead broken out into a separate post and then linked to as a reply. See this as an example : https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/steem-community-building-how-to-turn-your-pennies-into-dollars
One post in particular had a lot of high paying comments. Again these were mostly diluted down pre 7/4, but still received quite a lot of money for a comment :
https://steemit.com/steem/@au1nethyb1/reducing-friction-for-critical-mass-adoption-of-steemit
This is very encouraging, thanks for the post! Looking forward to becoming as witty as humanly possible! Training starts now.