Why commenting?
"Minnow should comment." The first time I heard the phrase was from CrimsonClad's Full Force Thursday radio show. She was repeating the advice from Aggroed, one of our respectable witness. I now know how true that statement is.
New Steemians wants to attract attention to their posts. However, since they are new, nobody will upvote or even read their posts. By commenting, the new Steemians are forcing the original poster to pay attention to them. Instead of trying to get tons of attention but gain nothing, by commenting, forcing one user to pay attention to them.
How to comment?
I've read it before somewhere about this. The best way to comment should be quite easy to do. All you need to do is to answer one or several questions.
Example of bad question: How do I feel about this? You might answer "This is good. Love it." which is kind of spamming.
Example of good questions:
- What is your experience with this topic? Sharing your personal experiences on comments will be considered a great comment.
- What mistakes that the original poster made? Giving constructive critics is good. Giving non-constructive critics is bad.
- What other point-of-view that the original author forget to bring? There are [how, why, when, where, what]. Which points that you can add?
- Engage / ask questions to the original poster. This is the best way. If you can engage in multi-layered comments with the author, giving and answering questions, it would be the best. This is very hard to do. But, if you can do it successfully, you have successfully made a friend on Steemit.
That's right, apparently everyone has his or her own techniques when it comes to commenting. Bottom line is whenever you're commenting on a post try as much as possible not to make it too short, else it will be counted as a spam and therefore attracts flags. Thank's for your contribution. Good luck!