I've adopted the role of commenting. I spent an embarrassingly large percentage of my time as an adult on reddit and I commented almost exclusively, rather than posting.

Not to try to brag, but I made the Century Club pretty easily and without using any of the tricks that most people use to get there. I would just comment on what I found interesting and where I thought I had something worth saying. 

I said all that to say this. In my experience, commenting adds real value to a community. Often times, good comments are what hook people into a subject. People want conversation, engagement, and relevant supplementary information to the post. It's inarguably a very large reason that reddit has done so well. And I'd argue that Steemit is woefully lacking in this area and would do well to repeat that particular success of reddit's.

In my *admittedly limited* experience here, there just isn't enough real conversation going on. I see many popular posts whose comment section is a barren wasteland. I see a lot of comment sections that consist of only a few, seemingly perfunctory, comments that consist of only two or three words without any real commentary.

I think that my contribution to the community here is to give people positive encouragement on their posts, to give them a feeling of accomplishment beyond just the Steem that they earn. And to make thoughtful, in depth commentary seem more normal to others who would mean to comment. To maybe help change what people around here think about commenting. That it's more than a means to scrape together a few pennies of Steem, but a rewarding part of the community in and of itself.