You kind of ponder, "What is Hive? " To me, it's number 1 use is s a blogging tool. Here is a place to write something and it's there immutably into the future. That can't be said about a blogging website. Plus you might earn a couple of rewards.
This is how I used Hive for the first 2 or 3 years, as a one way thing. And that's fine. But as you say, it wasn't until I started interacting that my follower account started to grow. That's the key to follower size and getting rewards.
As far as content rewards, it's got to be a good thing. Incentives yield results. Now I just need to remember to do it when I write.
!LUV
That's pretty much how I saw it in the beginning, as well. I was tired of hosting sites just shutting down and losing hundreds of hours of work because it just vanished overnight.
People do respond to rewards... sad as it may seem, "money talks." Even if someone just ends up with a few Hive cents, it's still an incentive. And it turns out to be more than someone with low HP upvoting comments with 20%. There's only a couple of thousand accounts with enough HP to "afford" to regularly reward comments in a meaningful way... so this is a good alternative.
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