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RE: Hello, real-life friend :) I've sent this via private message on Facebook as you've expressed an interest in steemit.
It's nice to see this level of detail when people promote steemit as new users often make mistakes that get them in trouble simply because they don't know any better. That or they get frustrated because their expectations are too high because steemit gets promoted as "easy money" which it usually isn't.
As for commenting on others' posts, it is definitely lucrative. I once got a $20 upvote on a comment I made on someone's post. It was about a month ago and I'm pretty sure it was @blocktrades. They hold a ton of SP!
I use a multi-tiered approach to earning here thru authoring, earning through curation since I've invested a few thousand of my own money here, and of course commenting.
Yes, there's a healthy level of skepticism amongst my friends (skepticism I once shared).
Now that I've done the research and 'get' this place, I'm trying to anticipate their misgivings and give them some context.
That's a good strategy; a bit of outside money, a bit of curating, commenting and blogging.
I have a lot of friends who lurk without posting; and wanted to be clear that all they need to do here is upvote and be rewarded for it.
There seems to be a lot of folks here who never say anything...they don't even comment (which is perfectly OK). Everyone has their own strategy.
One day I was going through my voters on a post and many of them had no posts or comments and are just voting and they hold very little SP. But they'll grow eventually though just like the rest of us. Everyone goes at their own pace. I'm a "go big or go home" kinda guy so I jumped into this thing head first.
I wonder if they're not native English speakers, so don't feel confident to speak up.
It'd be an excellent way to learn English, come to think of it :)