Today I felt dicouraged and decided to ask for help. Just after I wrote the blog I saw your blog and you made me remember why I like it here. Thank you for that!
You are right about commenting and replying. I had already some great conversations that gave me insight and I learned so much. I learned on facebook not to reply anymore in an open community because of trolls and hate. I only found that behaviour here ones and that was resolved quickly. For so far the social interaction I find here is genuine and friendly. I agree that when you never interact you don't find it and it makes the steem it experience less interesting.
Thank you for the comment @barbaarseevelien.
It does help to be reminded of what we are doing on here. What you recounted, I heard numerous times about FB...that it is a lot of trollers and haters.
This is a much better behavior...the fact that our compensation is tied to how well we play with others lifts the way people behave. This is why I think the negativity and other stuff you see on other sites is shunned.
I think it is true what you say about the financial rewards. I remember facebook being positive but slowly that changed. I think clickbait and ruthlessly advertising has also something to do with the 'decline' and there was no real way for people to curate the content. A lot of negativity takes away the fun.