What's your purpose for posting? Are you posting to "mine" hive, or are you posting to tell a story, share something, or create a discussion, or build a community?
Words are about intentionality - and you can definitely say the same thing in ten words or ten thousand. One is going to have more impact than the other.
A story about a cat watching birds in a window on a rainy day - for example.
It could be a photo, and two hundred cleverly written words.
or
It could be a philosophical treatise on how cats behaviour is conditioned by their predator mechanics, with some sort of cruel irony about them not liking water, and birds being fine with it (etc)
It is all about context.
yeah i went through a period of asking myself the point of it all, i realised that a lot of it was coming from the earlier days of hive where we considered "good" content to be a bit longer, but that's not so much the case anymore; i had a lot of bad practices that came from the earlier days that i was still doing more out of routine without realising
i actually enjoy writing less for the photography posts since i feel like i'm more concise with what i want to say and don't feel the need to spread out a ton of words when the post is generally just about the visuals
I've figured out a way to compare content within individual communities, so posts can be compared on metrics that matter to those communities.
I think Photography Lovers will be one of the first that I will look at, because there's a big variety in that community, words vs pictures, technical explanations, and image and shutter speed / iso / aperture.