You can call that whoring yourself out if you want but the reality is that there is a limited number of IMM's and those IMM's have a finite amount of time to snoop random people. If you want props or attention DO something to get noticed otherwise don't expect any, its not a hard relationship to see. Besides a lack of comments does not mean a character was never watched it could as easily mean that the character did nothing while being watched. From Meldressen's goodbye thread I would not be surprised if that wast the case.
Not doing anything to get someones attention then wondering/complaing why they ignored you seems pretty asinine to me (Not saying Meldressen's character is complaining).