You are bringing up some good points.
But I have been here for about 5 weeks now and at the beginning I tried to comment a lot but often didn't even get any reply on my questions.
So I tried to focus on writing articles which as you said sometimes takes hours for some little reward.
I also haven't had the time to explore all those interesting posts lately, I really need to dig deeper into it myself
However finding a good balance between writing and commenting might be best. This month I'm on a 30dayschallenge to post one own article every day, but from December I will take on the commenting challenge again
Thank you for reminding me!!!!
Keep at it!! Having only been here for 5 weeks I would certainly emphasize the 'commenting' challenge - maybe shoot for 5 - 8 comments - which will probably take the same amount of time or less than 1 post a day and also try your best to comment as soon as possible after the post is posted without compromising the content of your comment - sometimes it's smart to also check the previous posts of Authors to see which ones actually upvote and interact with the comments and which post and be done - I feel like 70-75% of Authors with a rep above 70 will interact with comments -
If there is a post with 200 comments don't expect the Author to reply to all - it would simply consumers way too much time
Take a look at some of my comments that were effective with rewards and maybe follow some of those people
Thank you very much for this detailed answer.
I certainly will try some of your ideas, I just wish I had more time. Haha
Still need to do my real job, well I guess most of us do.
@maxinpower - Anytime!! The one beautiful thing about STEEMIT which has never really changed as far as I know is that people are ALWAYS willing to help, share advice, explain things and also motivate... One of the attributes of the platform I really admire.
And yes - I struggle with the time issue as well on STEEMIT - Working 50-60 hours a week with a 2 year old daughter is quite cumbersome... I try to sneak in 10 - 30 minutes here and there at different times of the day and some days I just have zero hours for STEEMIT because food on the table and family are my priorities in life... If I ever get to the whale status and reap even $100 blog posts Ill quit the day job and be on here 6-8 hours a day and have more time for my family as well :)
Who knows maybe Ill get a christmas bonus and dump it into SP and roll the dice :)
@maxinpower - Oh by the way - how on earth did you reach a rep of 54 in 5 weeks? Did you already know some whales on here that have followed you? It seems like your posts are rewarding more than most would receive within such a short time.. Whatever you are doing it seems to be working well for you
Just a short reply since I'm already in bed
I don't know any whale, well as much as I know. And some of my rewards come from using Minnowbooster. I wrote about it too
I also put some if my yen I to SteemPower, but that shouldn't change the rep
Not sure about the reputation, I'm just writing and commenting as everyone else I guess.
I don't think I'm doing well, but I know some users here earn even less.
And I'm serving the English speaking and the small German community so I try to post bilingually. However most replies are from the German side.
Catch you tomorrow. Have a good one
Thanks for your input!! Much Appreciated and Sleep Well my friend