Yo @d-pend! Yeah, Steemit is the CRACK-COCAINE of personal and artistic development! After reading your post I meditated on some of the CORE areas in which Steemit has THROTTLED by development in the past (almost) year. One area which is becoming INCREASINGLY clear to me is in the APPRECIATION and SKILL in the process of "commenting" on Steemit (and social media in general). The fact that comments are labelled as "posts" here on Steemit is something that people don't fully understand until they reach more advanced levels of proficiency/experience with the platform. To illustrate this, I have been finding that the quality of my comments BOTH on Steemit and OFF of Steemit (ex. specifically YouTube) has evolved by leaps and bound since engaging with this platform. Interestingly, I find that NON-Steemians who read my comments (on YouTube) seem to feel like my comments are "overly elaborate", but this is because THEY have NOT come to realize the VALUE of comments, because they haven't made that evolution through exposure to blockchain social media concepts. This is ony become MORE APPARENT over time - which I consider a "badge of honor", and a METRIC of how far I have come. I believe that as more and more people become exposed to this aspect of blockchain social media (commenting) the bar will be lifted across the entire social media realm (blockchain-based or not)...