Jeez bro! You killed this article. It feels like something I could have written a long time ago. People underestimate the powers behind powering up, leaving valuable comments and networking on this platform. Cheers for bringing this up.
I think one shouldn't be restrictively counting their comments (just to save bandwidth) provided he/she is strategically leaving valuable comments after reading a post. In that case it will be a big plus because every comment counts as a post too.
Yes everything dropped on steemit.com is valuable, including comments. I've seen someone who got $5 from commenting on a post, meanwhile his own post that day only made $1.2.
Yeah bro. It happens to me too often. Cheers to making good posts and comments on steemit!
BTW: do checkout the tag #Hug-Challenge. I created it out of the need to encourage people to be more participatory in this system and reward those doing it well. See yah!
OK I'll check it out