I'm definitely really happy to be interacting with people, many of whom have advanced knowledge in areas that I don't. If the community wasn't good, I'd have been long gone.

Me too. I actually enjoy commenting and curating more than making my own actual posts and it's because of the interaction.

I am going to promote this post, my very first promoted post, so I have no idea what I'm about to do.......

Thanks that is very kind of you:) I only did it as a test on my post. In future I will only do it on other people's posts. Sadly I have seen quite a few brilliant posts with only 1 or 2 cents attached and I have been unable to raise their visibility myself despite posting links in the chat. Hopefully this will help.