I think the KE ratio is nice and simple information. I was VERY surprised to see my KE ratio was even over 1.25 but I guess I must have been liquidating all of my meager earned rewards for the first 2 years I was a reply guy.
Once I really invested the time to write my own content (through actifit and splinterlands curation), I stopped selling off my HIVE to build my stack of HBD. I've been consistently keeping my HBD stack reinvested in savings for the past 1.5 years!
I wish more SL players would realise how valuable it is for Splinterlands to participate in the content pool on Hive. SL should have its own "community" interface that really drives content creation, fans and player development. And on Hive, that is also a rewarded community, to add another splinter to the game.
They do a decent job getting content through their weekly curation contests. I think you can get two upvotes each week if you post on theme, and if you're a popular account life aftersound or thepeoplesguild then they auto curate everything you post.