The Importance of Commenting
And Replying

If I said it once, I'd say it a thousand times, commenting is one of the best ways to engage with the Steem community, get to know your favorite content creators better, bring some awareness to your blog and maybe even make a few bucks. For a long period, I used to make more on comments than on posts.

If you’re in your early stages and you still don’t have so much support on your blog commenting and engaging with people on the chat is the way to do it, that’s how I started, and that’s exactly how many others, even whales, have started before. After all, the first Steemian that showed me the way and told me about commenting is @papa-pepper, in this interview I took him in my first week here.

If you want to see some new success stories take a look at @dedicatedguy, who joined about one month ago and he’s already killing it, working his ass off, engaging with so many people.

Replying

I’m seeing this all the time, people getting great comments on their posts but they are not responding them, and it’s so sad because they can miss on a great conversation, friend and maybe even a consistent supporter of their blog. Of course, this does not apply to whales who get tens or even hundreds of comments; it's quite impossible to respond all of them in their case.

I used to reply every single comment, and since I joined @sndbox my blog went through the roof, and now I’m getting a lot of comments. I’m still trying to respond all of them but since there’s that thing call life that takes up a lot of my time I may miss on some. I have a few posts from this week that I have to go back and reply the comments because that’s how I want to run my blog, even if it’s not always easy.

What’s fantastic about this is that if you regularly reply to comments you can gain some authentic followers, there are a few people like @bitdollar, @dedicatedguy, @gniksivart and @cabernet who rarely miss any of my posts and always give me valuable feedback. Because I appreciate their comments so much, I try to get on their blog and curate and comment on some of their posts but that is not always possible since my time, and my VP is limited, being part of @ocd eats up about half of my VP.

Also, there are people like @revisesociology who come now and then and give excellent comments thus they make a great first impression that is hard to forget. I searched @revisesociology on discord and gave him a link to the Be Awesome community created by @whatamidoing, to join me there and chat more.

If I wouldn’t reply their comments, engage with them, probably they would not be that active on my blog anymore; thus I would’ve missed on some fantastic peeps and conversations. I don’t always get to reply all of the comments but I read all of them, and I try to make time to give them a decent reply.

Conclusion

If your blog is doing well and you receive some comments I urge you to try to reply all of them; you never know where the next comment may take you. If you’re not there yet then regularly comment on other people’s post until they notice you, who knows, maybe you will gain a valuable follower. But don’t do all of the things I mentioned above because you want to make money but because you want to connect with people.

I was fortunate enough to meet and connect with so many Steemians in my early stages and looking back now because I did that, I was presented and nominated for projects like @OCD and @Sndbox. I received constant support on my posts from people like @Lexiconical, @Nikez452 and @dontstopmenow, but maybe most importantly I got to make a lot of quality friends like @Acidyo, @anomadsoul, @mk40, @meanmommy33, @whatamidoing, @macchiata and many others. There are so many people I could mention, but the post would become too long then.

In the end, Steem is a social media network, and the only way to prosper is if you connect with people and there are plenty quality ones you can connect with.

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