Great post.

However, I disagree on one point. Writing valuable posts is far more profitable when time is considered than writing comments. A valuable post in a popular tag can credibly make $100-$1,000, from what I've seen with at least a 20% probability.

If so, this means by writing 5 valuable posts a day spread out across the day in peak periods, you will on average make $100-$1000 a day.

Crafting a comment with a high $ value is far more difficult. Certain posts require levity, in which case memes are highly rewarded. Others require more serious reflection.

This means the average payout for comments is not only subject to greater variability but on average would probably be far lower than that for valuable posts. Which means to make a reasonable amount of money per day by commenting , you have to write a lot of comments.

In fact, an optimal way to make money through comments is through automated shitposting, in other words by scaling production of comments as with a large enough sample you are likely to 'strike gold' ,as it were - to produce a well rewarded comment.

This can be observed by checking the wallets of memes-shitposters, and comment bots.

However, if you don't think you write valuable content, commenting is certainly an optimal approach. With enough iterations of rubbish comments, a few will be well rewarded. And those that aren't will collect dust which accumulates (i.e. a cent here a dollar there).