I enjoyed your post and laughed out loud at some of your descriptions. I don't feel your pain quite yet because I'm still new to the site. I do wonder, however, if your observation (lament?) that so many comments are fake isn't a function of how SteemIt works.
Let's face it, rewarding commentary sort of opens the floodgates to all manner of nonsense. This was one of the reasons I considered not getting involved in this social network.
Like you, I prefer engaging in an exchange only with people who have something genuine to contribute to the conversation: an example, a counter-example, a different perspective, a related funny story, whatever.
That does make the upvote--in the right hands--a pretty powerful tool. I intend to be rather judicious (read: stingy) with mine. 👍
Yes, I think content creators on Steemit can somewhat control this problem by only rewarding/upvoting comments that are genuine. I think that is how the "CopyCat Comments" where born - they noticed that the short little basic comments they left were not getting upvotes anymore. People are aware of the copycat problem too now, so those comments aren't getting upvotes as much anymore either lol.
Thank you for your Genuine Comment! :)
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