Well, it difficult to get upvotes here on hive, but I believe that hard work and patience pays. However, very few people might have that patience, that's why it's difficult for new people to stay.
But talking about one person spending all of his voting power on just one individual, has already shown the level of his selfishness, denying other creators opportunity to earn. I hope he understands this.
But for struggling content creators, if they at least have some support, by upvotes it would be so encouraging. We all are humans, so it is very natural to expect the upvotes you see on other peoples content on yours too.
I tell you that there are people here who have been posting for many months now, but they do not have engagement and upvotes on their content, even including mine, although I believe that one day, my time here will pay.
However, I come to believe that to make in here on hive, you need to invest money to buy vote. That is what I have believe now. Because if you don't have enough Hp to delegate to some individuals, you can't earn their vote. Especially from curation trail. This makes this platform totally centralise.
It takes courage and patience to be here. Let's be real to ourselves; no one would be here if not for content monetisation. even in traditional social platforms like; X, Facebook, tiktolk and others, people get engaged because they hope to be monetized.
All am saying is; so many people have been denied upvotes, not because their content are not good enough, but because the don't have HP enough to buy those upvotes by delegation.
Everyday, we are spreading the good news about hive on X and other platforms. (I also do the same). But it baffles me how we intend to keep the new members we are hunting for, when almost 70% of the people we have already hardly gets an upvotes on their post.
What an interesting insight. With that mentality and belief, no wonder you get no upvotes.
Entitlement is bad, self reflection is good. That's how you move forward on Hive
What has made you believe this?
This is literally a reason I get downvotes on my posts cause I attempted to stop such activities. There are some still ongoing and harder to get in the way of, but I believe there's always some solutions, if its not possible to downvote at times, it is possible to never upvote them yourself. The chain will remember who they are.
I really don't think your overview of how things are here are correct, I run a pretty big curation project and we do a lot to curate users based on different criteria that are not how much Hp they have, how much they delegate to us or their KE, etc. So I respectfully beg to differ in that case.
It's just mind bloggling how twisted some people's thoughts are, and they try to justify their own short comings as created by someone else