Did you know that the quality of your comments can also build the value of your reputation and bring lots of followers?

And did you know: 

• The strength of your reputation rating and the more followers you have… builds your up-voting power and your Steemit Power! 
• And the more Steem-Power you have, the sooner you become a whale! 

So comments are important:

Did you know your comments are counted as posts too? And therefore their content is just as important as the blogs you post with such devoted care!! 

Comment content:

Short comments: such as, “You post was great.” Or “I enjoyed it.”…. Doesn’t cut it!  

Okay, you’re giving the author of the blog a lovely compliment. But that’s where it ends!! 

How can the author of the blog answer it?  

The author of the blogs is really requiring more than that, in order to reply to the comment. They need something they can acknowledge besides the kind appreciative complements. 

Comments should provoke more discussion:

The more quality inter-action there is in your commenting, the more attention you create. Not only for the particular blog you’ve just read and commented on… but also for your own sake and site too! 

1. Your reputation grows with the quality of your comments content. How you relate to other people and the type jargon you use is important. 
2. The quality of your comment shows how intellectual you are. People want to go and see what else you write on your own personal site. And if you have fantastic interesting blog and comment content there on your own site, you’ll mass a lot of comments and gather more followers for yourself as well. 
3. From the comments we receive as blog authors, we assess to see what else people are interested in. We need to write stuff that gives people a reason to come back again and get more of what they really want. 
4. Did you actually read the blog before commenting? Say what really caught your attention and what you think it did for you. Or what made you laugh, etc?! This helps the author to know what grips people’s attention. 
5. What was so great about the blog you just read? The author of the blog didn’t write the blog for nothing. Was it a waste of time and effort on their part? They want to know if it was helpful and all worth it.  
6. When you ask questions, it’s important to base your questions on the blog’s topic and don’t go off on another tangent all together. Questions give the author a chance to inter-act with you and what else they can write about in future. 
7. Build a friendship: Be human and own your personality. Say how you feel about the topic and how you related to it. This puts you `on the same page’ with each other and builds an understanding between you both. Friendships grow according to how you both relate in some way or other. 
8. Make it easy for the author of the blog, to be able to read and answer your comments. Broken illogical sentences withOUT capital letters and no full-stops, make it hard to understand and cypher what the comment is all about. Because you don’t know where the sentence begins or ends. The author of the blog then doesn’t know how respond and the comment may not be replied to or even up-voted.  
9. Very short comments give no reason to how they should be replied to. Add something that gives the author of the blog a purpose to reply to it favourably and up-vote it. 
10. Building friendships before expecting any favours, is the right way to go. People who demand up-votes, etc start off on the wrong foot. Its bad manners and likely to be ignored. It is better to build appreciative reputation, by supplying interesting comment input.  
11. Friendly positive comments `open doors and windows of the heart’. Naturally ensures you’ll be up-voted, re-steemed, followed, etc… without having to beg for those beneficial privileges. 
12. Quality content really counts. For sure, building a good reputation is very important to get on and be successful in this world. 
13. Be an exciting dynamic person to have around. A party always needs a happy uplifting personality to make it come alive. If you are that sort of person, other people want to see what your website is like too! 
14. The power of your personality goes a long way. It’s up to you how you use it. People may not be able to see you or where you work or live, but the words you use can say a lot about you. 

Conclusion:

Comments are there to build each other up and improve the status of Steemit. So we all benefit and have a great time here on Steemit.