You poor little slave. You are so gullible, that you continue to drink his sales pitch coolaid, even after admitting in your own comment that it is failing. You still give him credit for on-boarding users who have now gone. once they are gone, the credit ends right there. Let me repeat, when the users leave, the credit stops there. You don't continue to give someone credit, after the failure to retain them on the platform. Do you even realise that you just re-affirmed my actual point? Even after the main reason why you replied to me was because you claimed I didn't make any points? You poor poor thing, obviuosly not - because you are blinded by the sales pitch. But you will continue to return to drink from the coolaid trough, for a couple of cents worth of upvotes on a comment. That's the whole plan here. To get people like you to continuously return to their posts for "engagement" and drive all the traffic to the posts of the very very few on here. It's called marketing manipulation. lmao, so easy to fool the sheeple on here.
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A stream of insults does not an argument make. :)
For me, Hive works much better than any other social media that I've tried in about 30 years. You seem to post quite often, too, and seem to be well rewarded. It seems that engagement that others get but you don't is what you are envious of because your posts do not seem to be getting too much of that.
When it comes to the quality of interaction on Hive, you are exceptional in my personal experience. If you want better engagement in your blog, I suggest you work on your attitude and communication skills. :)
Unfortunately, You have missed every single opportunity to understand my original comment, and you ignored everything that was in any way detrimental to the point of views of the author for obvious reasons that I already outlined lol. There was no stream of continual insults, it's was just sarcasm as away to get a point across, combined with what you call strong criticism and it was not just directed at this author, as some people in this thread have claimed.
Look at the first reply to my original comment. It was complimentary, so obviously some people agree with what I had to say - but you and a few others completely dismiss that. Pay attention, because as I said, if the smaller/average users are just brushed aside as insignificant and merely used as a way to further the interests of a few, then the failure will be sooner rather than later. But they don't want to hear that, because they don't want others to hear it too. Why do you think that his partner in crime (I will no longer mention them by their usernames), arrived on the scene out of nowhere, and not only downvoted an opinion with force and no reason given - but he actually insulted me - and he did it from a memo. Why do you think he did that? So I could not have the right of reply. That is called Authoritarianism. You should now realise why these people are part of the problem. Not the whole problem, but part of it. Those types of actions, are what drive out content creators.
Here is the other point that you are missed. You seem to think that I am complaining about my blog and the results of my efforts. I'm obviously not complaining about that. I've done just fine, because I blog about things that I enjoy writing about. I have also found the right circle of users to interact with and share content with....same goes with the community I was part of. So, I'm not complaining for myself, I was merely making a statement that there is blindness involved with the reasons on why the entire platform is failing as a whole.
Thanks for the advice. I definitely have zero communication skills, because I'm not allowed to. That's why - the silencer gets applied pretty quickly to those who don't adhere to the rules of the anointed "kings and Queens" of the platform. You know that, which is why you take the easy road and just "play ball". playing right into the hands of it all, just all the rest who do the same. That's why I feel sorry for you all. You are just happy to succumb to that BS, without speaking up.
They are the same people who continuously tell everyone that they are entitled to nothing, but reap all the rewards amongst themselves. Not only that, but some of them have the audacity to write posts asking for large sums of money for doing discord work, and spending time doing things, off the actual platform haha. C'mon, please!
I will end this conversation by saying that I am now leaving the platform. So guess what? Mission accomplished. You won't dare to tell them they lack communication skill now will you? You see what the problem is now? You all adhere to their authoritarianism and drink their coolaid, without questioning it in any way, while you have no problem in responding to me with an honest opinion of how I act, you will never do that to the "big fish" on here. You give these guys way too much credit, and all they really did was get to this platform before everyone else. That's why and how they succeeded. When you get in early, you create all the circles and networks early. It's simple math. Something that gets lost on the people who are desperate to please the "influencers" at any cost.
So far the substance of your criticism towards Hive has been that there's too much circle jerking (large stakeholders giving each other large upvotes in a circle) going on.
I'm not part of any circle jerks with large accounts and I've never been. Yet, I'm quite happy with my earnings because I know I couldn't have earned anywhere near as much on them on any other platform. If I've been able to do it on less than stellar content the kind couldn't have earned anything anywhere else, so can a lot of other people. What's great about this place is that it's perfectly good for the very same activities as any other social media platform while offering the possibility to earn something.
There is a group of people who mined a lot of Steem Power in the beginning many of whom became consensus witnesses. You seem to be saying that I should be horribly envious of these people and harbor a great deal of resentment towards them simply because their early adopter advantage is considerable.
The circle jerk criticism, while not completely unfounded, is not fair since there are curation projects with very large amounts of Hive Power that constantly reward very large numbers of content creators for good content. But you will not find a platform anywhere where the distribution of rewards is considerably less top-heavy than on Hive. YouTube, for example, has made its founders extremely wealthy and only the very top of the content creators there earn much of anything.
If you have the technical skills or know people who do, then I suggest you create a new fork of Hive and airdrop the tokens to whoever you want. Then you can try and get the token listed by major exchanges. That's how you can build a platform tailored to your own liking. Just do it!