>"If I was a minnow and wanted to grow quick here, I wouldn't waste my time posting long quality original material, i would wait to have a large following before putting a lot of time into my writting . I would however invest a lot of my time to interact with other users's comment and I would also buy myself a little steem power to upvote comments."

True. Although at times 20something votes from minnow friends may not even earn me up to one Sbd on my posts, but I still appreciate their support. Although, having steemeans with higher steem power upvote my usually long, original posts would be extremely encouraging. Guess I need to focus on making more comments now.🤷

Thank you for the nice sharing, I followed you. I would appreciate it if you would come to visit my profile sometimes🖐️

There is more to Steemit than just posting articles, I found out the hard way that commenting and upvoting it goes a long way in building relationships. Putting this out there ensures those coming along would find it easier. Stay blessed.

I'm new user, and like your opinion of waiting to have a larger following before posting original, long contents.

This is what we minnows face: you take your time and write an original content but you don't get rewarded for it. Our blogs are littered with  good contents without rewards. This is sad. Some have resorted to commenting but the big authors may not reward us either. This is the lot of most of us.

@snowflake you are the boss. Thanks for your post its educative.

I always upvote decent comments on my blog posts. I mean I don't have anything to lose from doing it and still have enough power to curate other content. 

It's also just rewarding people for the effort they put into reading your post and commenting.

maybe you are right about that, but some people do not read what the contents of the post. the person only commented did not concern with the contents of the post. it feels annoying.

Excellent points. I couldn't agree more.

Wow the best post i have read for the day, you nailed it @snowflake
> If I was a minnow and wanted to grow quick here, I wouldn't waste my time posting long quality original material, i would wait to have a large following before putting a lot of time into my writting . I would however invest a lot of my time to interact with other users's comment and I would also buy myself a little steem power to upvote comments.

Thanks for that advice to minnows like me

As a minnow of Steem I often feel like the lack of comment interaction comes from greed. People don't want to waste influence unless they think it'll make them more money or increase their following. The best way to get a good following here is to invest a good chunk of cash and using bots to comment/find/upvote/resteem (which is pretty much half the damn posts).

I just being a rookie listening to such a huge advice right on my first day is great. Thanks for the concern of minnows like me.

Thank you for sharing valuable advice for us as minnow. By upvoting anyone comment at least ensure ourself as a nice person 😊

but this way you are wasting the time of your followers who read your posts honestly for nothing. 
If this is your point of you as an investor, you can make an empty post and make make something like 10 comments on that post everyday and upvoting them instead of wasting the time of people who you don't care about and they don't make a difference for you

"By upvoting people who upvote you you are giving more power to yourself. this is a lot more effective than self voting but its a long term benefit. "

yup i am agree with your words but i think  some people same may not up-vote the audience  comments to same there voting power.

anyhow up-voting the comments of audience encourage people to follow the every-post,make friendly relation and for long term benefits.

It's a good reminder to do this.  Most of the time i'm just so happy someone has commented on my pics that I forget to give them a bump.  I'm a minnow - but I've had pretty good luck with my content.  I find it interesting that the advice is always to not spend time on that....why do you think just to comment.  Wouldn't it be better to do both?

Did you actually just lead out by saying you don't upvote comments, but other people should?

@snowflake. I like your post,  I'd like to add something else to your readers..The link I have attached will also help minnows grow quickly by getting more upvotes.

https://steemfollower.com/?r=13941
Thank me later. I got more help posts on my blog, Feel free to jump on over and check them out, give an upvote and follow if you are inclined!

i didn't know upvoted comments went to top, but i never get comments anyway.  when i do, i always upvote all of them.... maybe someday i can use this as a tool if i ever make it out of the minnow pool...

I just found this article and can’t agree more with you! I always reward nearly every comment but not many return such generous gesture. I am planning to write about this soon. 🙏🙌

there is one thing about life. 
learning will never stop as far as we are still breathing. 
learning stops when we quit obtaining information from the right source Like @snowflake. 
I appreciate this one. 
>If I was a minnow and wanted to grow quick here, I wouldn't waste my time posting long quality original material, i would wait to have a large following before putting a lot of time into my writting . I would however invest a lot of my time to interact with other users's comment and I would also buy myself a little steem power to upvote comments.

information is the key to success. Without information , deformation sets in.

Nice good

I totally agree. I also usually reward my audience by Upvoting their comments on my post, if they are genuine and honest (so no upvotes for generic "nice post" or "please follow me" comments)

good read

thanks for the idea :) it helps much!!!specially to minnow like like me... We need people like you who is willing to guide us. More power!!

Truer words have never been spoken, thanks for the minnow advice @snowflake

It is true,spent a lot of time as a newbie commenting on other authors article instead of putting out article,i need to be rewarded,that is my opinion

Too bad I haven't discovered this post earlier, now I cannot resteem it anymore ...
Why can't we resteem posts older than 7 days ? It would be cool even if it doesn't open a new 7 days window for gathering rewards ...

your posts are ever nice and educative, i always feel the gratitude and zil of reading

I upvote the good comments on my posts. I want to encourage good discussion. It does tend to attract a lot of more random comments that maybe don't deserve anything. Swings and roundabouts

I ask this very often. I do it consistently as people who take the time to read, comment and engage should be encouraged to do so and deserve some reward for their effort. Of course, I don't upvote every post. 

There is so much value and so much community development possible under the post yet many ignore it.

>Also one of the key things to increase your following is to answer comments on your thread, at least those that you liked and upvoted otherwise it shows that you only care about payout and don't give a f* about your audience.

I can't comment on every post but I am quite disappointed in large, highly rewarded accounts who put so little effort into the audience who supports them.

BTW, I just wrote an article mentioning you (not directly) and was wondering what you were up to and thought I would drop by. Nice to see this kind of post here.