It might help a little, but I believe not to much. If you look at the curation league hosted by @abh12345, you can see a few top commenters in the 2nd league. Those Steemonians wrote hundreds of comments on a weekly basis. It takes them a full work week (like 40 hours per week) and yet they don't have a large group of followers their selves. Of course they do a bit better then the average. But only very few new Steemonians succeed in getting like 20+ comments per post and $10+ value.

In one thing you are totally right, follow you for some geeky stuff. No discussion about that!