Some time ago I read a post by a Hive user about the lack of engagement and interaction between reader and author in some interesting publications on Hive. I can totally agree with his idea, Hive has gone to a state where it's just people publishing, hoping for votes from big whales.
A great example of this are the content creators of Splinterlands, not all of them, but a large proportion only show up for the weekly challenges and disappear for the rest, not even bothering to answer some comments. Perhaps there needs to be a greater incentive for those who participate in the community?
I've nailed a term for that "Whale votes farming".
I also think it's pretty bad for the platform.
The so called "weekly challenges" of many communities are oftentimes pretty boring and don't add anything valuable to the platform... Unless we're talking to the 2-3 persons ( almost always the same ) participating.
Sometimes I'm wondering if the engagement - comments - should be rewarded a percentage of the post value ordered by the number of like ( not the value) . That's how you create engagement.