I try to keep up with my followers work, especially if they response to my questions.... to me it is respect(:) you took time to response and comment on my work so, I come knocking(on your door)(:) on your hubs, and follow you or response to your work.
Yes, it absolutely does, in fact, sometimes you gain folowers or at least readers based on the context of your answers or questions, but this shouldn't really be one's sole motivation for posting... If it is, then I dare to say you're probably missing the point. Just as we're all compelled to write in the first place, I suppose we also have the irresistable need to "chime in" and be heard.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.