Well that's a silly question.
A post is what I'm writing (and you are reading) right now. It's something that hours of effort are spent composing and minutes of thoughtful contemplation is spent reading......right? (Well maybe not hours but at least a few minutes.) Some THOUGHT is put into a post. It's not spontaneous.
My understanding is that Steemit rewards four posts(articles) a day at full value. After four posts a day the reward declines dramatically. After about ten posts it's about zero.
A comment is a response to an article (post). The time and effort expended is much less. Many times (most times) a comment is just that, an off the cuff remark. (although I've seen some comments which appeared to have taken more time and effort to compose that they article that it was responding to, but rarely)
A comment is original context too and it is rewarded......how?
I'm unclear on that part. If a comment is considered a post and is subject to the ' after four posts a day then what you say becomes worthless' rule then that would explain why there are so few commeents. (note: I'm not saying that the 4Posts rules is a bad idea,but let's a spade a shovel ok?)
So few? Well yeah. I was on FaceBook for about a decade where ANY post received multiple responses. Even something like "good morning". That's not happening here on Steem and I don't understand why.
Social media is my social life. In the RW I'm an introvert. "I don't play pretty with others". Consequently I'm going to be 'chatting online' no matter what. Getting paid for doing it is just a bonus.
Not so say I wouldn't like the money. I certainly would.
So how can we encourage "conversations" rather than silence or just 'drive bys"....
One More thang.
I have heard that edits such as this, count as a post, thereby decreasing the value. I've also heard that is not true.
Color me confused.