Posting and voting and commenting especially during the dips in steem price are some of the best times to be making yourself visible. It show the long term (relatively speaking) people that yes you also are in it for the long haul. That you understand there are ups and downs in the price of steem, just as there are ups and downs in life.

Steemit only recently passed the two year mark, and the first time users are all just approaching their two year mark, as I approach my one year mark. It is still early in the game here. There are still aspects of steemit I do not understand, there are a lot of aspects of crypto I do not understand, like anything new it takes time to learn.

One thing I think people learn after awhile is that you really can not go steemit alone. You need to interact if you want your account to grow. If you are on steemit for the social side of life.

Investment wise, if you have enough money to make a decent investment then you can automate it all and forget about it just checking in once a week to make sure things are still giving you money. Will your automated earnings help steemit grow in the future? Not likely. Like most businesses, Steemit will need to build its appeal to the middle class if it wants to continue to grow beyond a beta stage.