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Writing posts is hard but sometimes it seems to me that writing comments is even harder. Because of that, I’ll give those of you who struggle with it a handy little guide to writing a comment on steemit. 

* Actually **read the post** you’re leaving a comment on and try to **understand the content**

* Don’t comment something that’s **missing any reference** to the actual post, the author will think that you just copy&paste it everywhere in the hope that someone will upvote it. Bad examples below, **avoid these**:


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* Don’t comment just to advertise your own post but it’s okay if your post has the same or a similar topic. 

* Don’t just quote random passages from the post without actually saying **something original** about them. 

* If something seems weird, **check the tags**. If one of them is "fiction", the things described in the post probably didn’t actually happen. 

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And last but not least:

* Upvoting your own comment looks pathetic, especially when you don’t upvote the post itself. Why not **upvote someone else’s comment** and do something for the community? 

*Of course, if know the author of a post personally, most of those points don’t apply. Friends can comment bullshit on other friend’s posts.*

Happy commenting! 

*Disclaimer: Please see this post as a humorous attempt at venting my annoyance about comment spammers. I doubt that the people who are the actual problem won’t even read this. In fact, I’m expecting many dumb comments under this post.*

<sub>First picture taken from pixabay.com, the rest are screenshots collected from my posts</sub>