I love what you have written, and the thing that bugged me the most when I am making my round of commenting and upvoting is that: they replied on their own posts. Some don't even bother to reply! It is like they missing the boat all together.
I have been struggling on my own since I started posting, and have only a handful of really good friends that give a damn! Today though, I have to limit myself from commenting, upvoting, and such, since without enough SP my bandwidth went down considerably. I suppose when you are low on the feeding chain, there is a cap on what you can do! Resteemed :-)
I have been thinking about this @icybc, the point you raised about bandwidth going down. I think that's why many people only vote a few times a day because your vote eventually becomes 'worthless'. Though not really worthless from a community aspect, because then a vote is similar to a 'like' on Facebook... even if 50 people with no power vote my post and I earn nothing, at least I know 50 people liked it. But if they don't bother to vote then I think it's gone unnoticed and feel a bit discouraged. Maybe that's how a lot of others are feeling... that their blogs aren't noticed and they go unvalidated, and if it happens a lot I think people will abandon Steemit in misery!!! :-( Not sure if I'm correct, but I will keep pondering these thoughts!