I liked your comment. I just finished writing my own and I made the comment there's way too much gamesmanship on Steemit.
I feel like 50% of the comments on any given post are bots or peopel who didn't read the post. 40% are people who skimmed the bare minimum to be able to comment related to the post and maybe 10% are actually thoughtful comments where someone is actually engaging with the creator.
Yep, now you're getting it Rebel... and I for one will never up-vote anything I haven't fully vetted, nor will I ever give to, or participate in any bot action whatsoever.
The struggle and the hustle is real. I understand why people get in that mode for sure.
Yeah it's hard to blame people because sometimes it feels like hey its not good for the platform as a whole but it's how to get ahead and everyone else is doing it. I've been seeing more efforts to kinda try to clamp down on that like these honey pot posts that supposedly will make it clear you shouldn't upvote or comment and if you do you somehow get dinged. I've yet to see one though.