Should I comment and stuff before I write my first post?

Let me level with you. I think this is a good strategy. I had over 200 followers when I wrote my introduction post. I received 0.23 in up-votes and almost quit because I had worked hard commenting. I got paid a whole lot more by providing real comments on the introduce yourself posts than I did writing posts. You do what you want to. If you want to get those hundred plus dollar upvotes having some active followers that will resteem, comment and upvote is a must. Spending a large chunk of SBD on Promotion Upvote Bots and Rallying all of your friends from places like SteemThat.com will help get you there. You need to get your post on the hot page and then spend enough to bust onto the trending page. This can be done if enough natural folks jump on and upvote, comment and resteem. Your friends will want to especially if you let them know you are going to boost the post. They will jump in early and get some good curation rewards. People are always saying you shouldn’t be here just for the money but those same people do a lot of things based on how they benefit the most. You can do the promote post also but this SBD doens’t get put into circulation which is stupid.