Hi friends!

In about a year of my presence on Steem blockchain, I've published 275 posts and posted 3,470 comments on mine as well as fellow Steemian's blogs.

For several months, I used to spend more time in reading others' posts and comments and then putting my comments there. I loved it that way as I love to consume information than disseminating it. Not everyone is a blogger. I still don't consider myself one. I used to earn a lot more from the upvotes I received for my comments than on my posts. Whenever I checked my potential rewards on Steem Supply, my Comments tab was always displaying higher rewards than Posts tab. But something compelled me to change my behaviour.

Should comments be treated as step-sisters to posts?

Many people who upvoted my comments when wanted to read my blog, they were disappointed to find no recent blog posts of mine for upvoting. I found here a weird psychology on this platform which makes people to upvote posts with their full voting weight but putting zero or only a partial VW on comments.In fact, there are many people, who if wants to upvote your comment, they won't, but instead they will visit one of your posts and upvote it.

I know, some people think that their upvotes on a post may help it to get that post in trending section but it's a rare possibility as I ain't talking about whale upvotes. Many people by default used to give comments less importance over posts. However, Steemit didn't use to discriminate posts from comments. Even today, the total Posts count figure include all posts and comments. Same is also applicable when earning rewards. So there was no distinction made between "posts" & "comments". I don't know, why a "Resteem" feature was not provided for "comments" & "replies". Twitter does a better job on that!

Anyway, some of my concerned friends told me to put my comments as "posts" as they thought that my comments deserved a better treatment ..LOL! I did pay heed to their advice and converted few of my potential comments into a full-fledged posts and they did earn better rewards. But somehow it didn't sound very appropriate way to me. So I started writing some stuff for my posts.

Now, I write more posts and a few short comments as replies to my readers' comments but I couldn't find much time to read and comment on many other posts as I used to do earlier. Now when I see my potential rewards on steem.supply, it's disappointing to see hardly any rewards from comments. Almost all my rewards come from my posts, these days.

My deepest gratitude to all commenters who interacted with me on Steem blockchain

Recollecting all my experiences about comments and how most people discriminate upvoting comments from posts; I feel highly grateful to all those Steemians who took out time and put effort to read and comment on my blog. I'm honoured by all of you.

Special Mentions:

So here's a list of top commenters to my blog in last 6 months (since January 1st, 2018):

Account	Comments	Characters typed
@geetharao	72	13349
@dhingvimal	30	2236
@mehta	25	4978
@mightypanda	23	3279
@paparodin	21	6894
@chetanpadliya	20	2853
@tusharvasave	19	2452
@akdx	18	6985
@tsnaks	18	1240
@mysearchisover	17	3076
@clumsysilverdad	14	1360
@neelamgahlyan	14	1438
@rentmoney	14	2173
@celinavisaez	13	2999
@thenomadictales	13	3105
@nicoleslife	12	7465
@hatoto	11	2291
@lippycruz	11	1374

Below is the list of top commenters based on the total length of their comments. Although I appreciate the content of all comments irrespective of their size, I'm specially grateful for the extra time spent for looong comments. Since I don't know typing, it's always tough for me to put long content. Hence a little bias 😉

Account	Comments	Characters typed
@geetharao	72	13349
@nicoleslife	12	7465
@akdx	18	6985
@paparodin	21	6894
@crypticat	9	6357
@anjkara	4	6347
@yvesoler	6	6107
@nehab	11	5414
@pibyk	5	5356
@malloryblythe	3	5238
@stwbll	7	5105
@mehta	25	4978
@rosmilage	6	4633
@aclarkuk82	5	4586
@elleok	10	4406
@beanz	3	3311
@mightypanda	23	3279
@limabeing	8	3147

All these data was provided by @abh12345. I always love and appreciate the interesting statistcis @abh12345 & @paulag always come up with. The fascinating thing about these data-loving people is that they keep digging and analysing data and serve it to us to interpret on our own. It's like serving graphs and charts for Technical Analysis and its up to the analyst to what to make out of these data. For me, it generated a deep feeling of gratitude in me and became a source of expressing my gratitude to all people who interacted with me over Steem.

Thanks for serving this small but an important list to me @abh12345!.

In case, you do not know, both @abh12345 & @paulag are running a joint witness server for some months now and you can consider these duo as your witness too.