I totally agree. Quality commenting is probably the best thing you can do when starting out. It’s really not complicated and should come organically. Find great content your are interested in and engage, I’ve picked up a lot of followers this way and it’s helped me get over that beginners lump that dooms so many to leave the site.
I never thought about the added benefit of increasing content and boosting rankings for Steemit. That’s fucking awesome. I think we all have been trained to avoid the comments section because it’s an endless pit of trolling and hate on the rest of the internet. Steemit has been able to avoid this as far as I’ve witnessed. You can actually make friends down here, instead of just collecting death threats😜