It gave me a good distraction to be honest and I didn't want to let people down by not doing it. I get a lot of enjoyment from it too and I think this sort of thing is good for the chain. It's a pleasure to do it and a pleasure to engage with folks like you.
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Awwe, you are too sweet! I agree it's good for the chain, gets people communicating with one another, I noticed the comment per posts average is low overall and could significantly improve. I don't think anyone would have felt let down if you skipped because of circumstances but I understand needing the laugh and distraction it brings.
I built my account on engagement, leaving comments for people and engaging. It's so important. The problem is, people like you and I get it, many newbies don't. They leave comments like thanks and ok thinking that's engaging. It ain't.
You do a good job with it though, you're good to engage with.
Hehe, good to know I'm engaging! I always considered myself as mostly introverted. I could leave more comments around the chain being mostly the quiet reader but I have my moments and do try from time to time. Like you said, you and I get it, newbies need to learn that aspect for sure before being overly critical of the "rewards" and where they go. I also think the content delivery is important but it seems to be hard to get that message across newbies, some content is hard to engage with.
Like yours, my account grew from engaging others, that's the whole point of social media is to be social. I tried to stimulate engaging content creation contest by having a writing photography combo about something meaningful in their lives reserved to newbies and nobody entered, it had a decent prize pool and a line up of bigger accounts ready to vote on them too. I'm under the impression some of them think Hive is money for nothing and the chicks for free! lol
Interesting that you say about the comp thing. I've found that too, but I'm a sucker and keep trying. A chance to expose oneself to bigger accounts, engage, win rewards and advance ones account... Why the hell wouldn't people engage? It's weird huh?
I agree with your money for nothing comment. I never got any for nothing though, and I bet you didn't either. Reward for effort is my thing.
"Reward for effort" ...Exactly. I think anyone who is successful here worked hard and wrote a lot of posts or comments until their fingers fell off to get to the position they are. Relationships are important to building and retaining a following. It's like the iceberg theory, some judge at the surface but they don't see the work that has been put in long term and consistently, it's not an overnight success, plankton give up too easily these days. I wish they would give hive and themselves a chance, it takes a while to learn the groove of things around here but it's so fun and if an anti social person like myself can make it, anyone can!
I thought it was weird too, kinda disappointed. I ran it at a time where there was a lot of complaints about reward distribution and I even tried to fish them in as I welcomed them to the platform or saw complaints. Competitions are the best way to build a following early on even if we don't win, heck I still enter competitions and little games to meet new people. Guaranteed to meet like-minded individuals in niche areas and most of us who have been here a while take time to read every single comment left on a post.
Give up too easy seems to be the norm in society, and so on hive to I guess. It's annoying as if people pushed on a little they would see things develop. Alas, they all want to be a millionaire in their first three weeks and if not they either get involved with reward pool abuse or just leave. It's a problem here and in society, the real world.
You made it here because you worked hard. Plain and simple.
It seems so hard for people to stay the course these days. They get too distracted by the expectation mentality society values. Frustrating.
Still, some of us engage, and build relationships. It's the aspect here that I value, like I value the actual relationships.
I agree, it's definitely a society flaw, instant gratification, cheating or the highway. I was hoping covid situation would change that mindset. Nothing worth it comes easy or instant. Lol I don't think any of us made millions from hive yet! I think expectations is a big part of it. People need to remember this is a new project and a new concept in the building, the hard work now will pay off later if this becomes successful, it's future success is in all of our hands. Early bird gets the worm, everyone here now is an early bird.
People also forget the exposure they could get in the future outside of the platform, like a virtual art/photo/writing portfolio anyone can view. This is the perfect opportunity to practice our craft and take it to a professional level at our own pace and a less intimidating informal setting while having fun. I remember being the first 500 to join facebook and it was super lame back then, it's still a crap social media but look where it is now a little over 15 years later, everyone and their granny are on it and hardly anyone gets a dime for their time and effort.
Same here, I have made so many virtual friends here just bullshitting around, it's awesome. I'm here for the long term prospects of a retirement career when I'm too old for the oil industry. Not necessarily getting my income from hive but it's a publishing platform for my work and hope to get to write local tourism gigs and get my photos out there. I want a photography book and hive records my stories one by one, then later when I'm ready, I can just edit and will already have a potential audience for it to help get the journey started. When I travel around and visit local businesses and want to include them in my posts, they get so excited that I want to include them even tho I'm small potatoes on a new platform. Hive can have real life applications, it's up to us to see the bigger picture and use it accordingly. If nothing like that ever happens, well I had a blast anyway.