@janusface Here we can seen mostly those who commenting first they have mostly chances to get rewards.
The success also depends on the way you comment on a post. If you just leave a Thank you or that was a great post note this will hardly get you an upvote. Your comment needs to be relevant to the post and add a new perspective or an important information.

Additonally you can make Steem Power through upvoting a post.
As someone who has spent some time putting together a few posts that I was sure would trend and ended up going nowhere, I think your strategy is spot on.

Genuine enthusiasm in other people's material will end up with those people reciprocating. I've been on here a few months, and I've realized that my participation in other people's content has been relatively minimal compared to what it could/should be.

I'm making it a goal to curate and respond to posts more than creating original content, at least for a few weeks. And the main things is you were get followers too:))