I hate to say this, but posts by persons with large upvote values, large enough to upvote a comment on any of their posts, will attract more comments.
lol Triggered NoNames
You have to be careful with that. You're insulting the integrity of those leaving comments and receiving votes for them. Have a look at my posts. Are all those comments there because I have stake and upvote?
Thank you for discussing this with me. I hope I haven't been offensive, but do recognize that as a possibility. I know I have to be careful with it, that's why I said "I hate to say this". My last talk with a whale about this very topic did not go well.
I don't quite understand where you are coming from with this comment though. To answer your question - yes! I can see that you do upvote most of the comments on your posts. That upvote is quite large for a comment, and some of your received and upvoted comments took no effort at all. Others lead to productive and valuable conversations. Of course some will comment for that possible upvote. Do you think not?
Please know that I am not faulting you!!! I see that you work hard on your posts, that you produce content that is well written, valuable and interesting, and, as a long term hivean, you deserve high rewards. You deeply engage with the more intelligent and thoughtful of the comments. This is good! I also spent a bit of time scrolling through your activities, and can see that you support small accounts regularly. Thank you! Several of those who seem to upvote you regularly do too, so you are in good company.
We all have to make our time here work for us in some way or another. My way is by entertaining my small, but loyal, freewriting followers. Most of our posts make next to nothing. My ROI on posts that take me a week or more, for the ink well, or hive garden, silver bloggers etc, is so bad, I no longer bother very often; they'd get oodles of comments, but earn ten/twelve bucks - I can't justify spending that kind of time here. My freewrites, which take a half hour to produce, average $5. They're good too. Go read one. Here, I liked this one a lot, and it made peanuts. But I enjoyed writing it. I think it's a good freewrite, and I am happy I took the time to produce it.
The perspective of what a small account thinks is right and fair is different from what your perspective might think is right and fair. Like life in the flesh.