I'm new user, and like your opinion of waiting to have a larger following before posting original, long contents.
This is what we minnows face: you take your time and write an original content but you don't get rewarded for it. Our blogs are littered with good contents without rewards. This is sad. Some have resorted to commenting but the big authors may not reward us either. This is the lot of most of us.
If authors were to upvote comments on their post their follower count would grow a lot faster, why most authors are not doing it is a mystery to me. As an authors there is no better way to use your voting power than reward those who gives you attention.
That is the obvious truth.