My experience here has discovered that I make just slightly over 70% of my rewards from comments anyway, so commenting is actually a great thing to be doing right now. Plus it grows your followers!

Be flexible and be persistent.

As on person said, perhaps he is just a pebble on the mountain-side, but it just might be him that is the difference between a landslide and slope stability. Each of us does make a tiny difference. Lead by example and surely some will follow.