Most of all because IRL when you subscribe to a magazine or newspaper or to services to watch movies and listen podcasts you are not expecting to also get paid to consume such content.
This is why it is unique and changing the SaaS model. Did you miss the memo? :)
But not everyone thinks about the getting paid to consume and infact, most people likely don't, which is part of the issue in general as to why many don't powerup.
That, in addition to the greater difficulty, if not impossibility of establishing contact with the authors and creators of such content.
Yes - but do you comment on every YouTube video you watch? It is very easy to do - most will not do it though.
You as a paid consumer/curator the least we could hope for is, that you would have commented, interacted lively or given some sign of intelligent life at least first, to really deserve to take half of the income from our works.
You can hope all you want, but remember that it is just your opinion and might not have anything to do with the entire ecosystem as a whole. Each of us has a narrow view of the world, including your own narrow view.
In my opinion, unless other people are willing to engage with other commentators, I don't want everyone who reads to comment, because I will never be able to answer them all. The amount of time i put into comments is astronomical - generally more than I spend writing by far. Yet, each commentator believes that I owe them my time, regardless of whether they paid for my time or not. On YouTube, posters including those who get paid very well, rarely engage in the comment sections at all - it is just viewers talking to themselves thinking they have relevance. At least here, those who do want a reply, have a chance of getting one.
Over the space of years, I have spent hundreds of hours speaking to you directly on chain - was it worth my time?
Obviously I am not. But basically because there is no benefit whatsoever to either of us if I do. Neither monetary nor of any other kind.
However, the few times that I have done it, it has been because it actually has had a favorable and great intellectual impact that I would like to encourage the author to continue producing it.
Exactly! the well-paid because they don't need to do anything else. Mission accomplished! They covered the viewing fee and received their pennies.
And those who have not been paid for their content, because they know that they will not grant or receive anything else of value if they comment or respond.
About this we have already discussed before a few times. And in my case, I never tire of repeating to you how lucky I have been not to have been a victim of this syndrome. ;)
I hope so. As long as you have not been one more of the frustrated souls who have tried to change me.
This is not true, as there are benefits for other people viewing the video, as often people will read those comments. It is the same here, most won't comment on the comments of others, even though it is valuable. But, value is in the eye of the beholder.
I don't have to respond to everyone either, it doesn't bring me any extra money - yet I do respond, because there is more to it than money.
I haven't tried to change you, though I do wish you would change. What is frustrating is that you don't want to change, but you seem to want different results than you get.