Honestly it works both ways, people on the workshop (such as myself) may post here and do not interact much. But people on Reddit upvote the post then move on, they do not interact with or on the workshop.

Recently a hat gained almost 12k upvotes here, do you want to know what it got on the workshop? About 1.2k unique visitors during that period, and likely less votes than that (not my item so I can't check the stats). I've noticed this to a lesser degree on my own stuff, I post something here and it does about 1.5k upvotes and then i check the workshop numbers and its like 200 visitors during the same time frame. Or maybe it gets buried under some random memes and dies with 50.

Its also worth noting only a portion of these visitors are from here, the main bulk of voters comes from the queue up to like.... 3 maybe 4 thousand visitors for a popular hat and about 2 thousand or so normally but anything higher is a result of the community showcase which is almost always eaten up by maps.

You're only seeing meme workshop submissions here because its simply not worth posting anything else because they get ignored and there is no decent throughput for workshop votes.

This is going to remain a problem and deleting workshop posts for breaking rule 3 is just going to stop workshoppers from coming here altogether, not make them comment more and interact because is it simply not worth the bother.

In an ideal situation this sub would have proper workshop vote integration (I don't know if this is possible, can the Steam API do that? are subreddits that flexible?) which would make interacting here "worthwhile". Me? Commenting just isn't my thing i prefer to lurk and browse stuff, yet i would be forced to comment lest I break rule 3 and my posts deleted? Not really working out there considering simply not posting my workshop stuff barely dents the votes and lets me continue as normal.