I read the "whales are invisible" part as a small author, and it hit differently. My last three posts made cents, with forty to a hundred votes, almost all from a community trail and none from a whale. Honestly, the whale was never going to vote me.
What moved my numbers was never the big account, it was publishing inside the right community and answering comments the same day. The trigger you are waiting for may not change that at all.
So my question: what would you watch to know the trigger arrived, given that for small authors the price of Hive barely changes the payout?
Exactly, real growth isn't signaled by price spikes, but by loyal readers returning to leave organic comments.
Agreed, and that is the part nobody can buy cheaply. I would rather have ten readers who come back than a spike that leaves nothing behind. Your comment goes straight into how I read my own numbers.