Some of us are doing what we can, when we can. I have family responsibilities that barely leave me enough time to post, let alone comment.
Earlier this year I set a goal to make 500 thoughtful comments in 10 days on LeoFinance and Hive. I completed it. But what surprised me was that while I made a few contacts, there were precious few responses to those 500 comments as there would have been in say, 2018.
I'd been using Canva Pro to create custom graphics for my posts. After the one year free trial, it was time to decide whether to pay the full price for year two. Often (when I had the time), I'd spend up to several hours both writing the post and creating and optimizing the custom graphic for my Hive post, only to see almost zero response. So I decided not to renew and just use Pixabay now since their images were included in Canva anyway.
What really bothers me is the copying. You'll spend hours writing a post, only to see someone come along, slightly re-write it, and publish under their own name. Your original post generates $0.60 (and no comments) while their copy generates $30.00 (and 20 comments about how well-written it was).
I started muting people that were coming to my blog looking for content to copy. I got tired of them using my work and getting support for it that I wasn't getting myself. I'll never forget the foreign woman who came to my post, left a comment, yet when I went back to her profile to do the same, I saw that she'd completly copied the closing line I'd developed and had been using for years and this "Learner" was getting compliments for it.
When I stopped posting for several weeks after that, the "Learners" noticed having no new content to steal. They started showing up when I returned asking why I wasn't posting every day anymore. My attitude is; Hows about you start writing your OWN content for a change?
However, I'm still here and havn't given up. If you look at my recent posts, my message is to keep plugging away on Hive, and so far that's exactly what I'm doing.
For a long time I was also frustrated about not getting any comments. Only recently I started getting more comments. Perhaps the same will happen to you as well. Good luck.
Thanks so much. I just watched your Witcher video and may someday actually get around to playing it myself. :) Until then, there's always something new to post about on Hive.
Not surprising at all. If you are commenting on people who are only posting to get their drip of HIVE, many don't comment back. Even some of the very well supported don't comment as much now either. It has become a cultural thing.
Drop me links to these kinds of things and they will be sorted out. A lot of the copying are rewrites using AI writers, often of AI written content. People are ridiculous. When completely grammatically correct and vocabulary-rich content is coming out of non-native speakers - it should set up warning bells. Very few have the actual skills.
I have had variations of my work copied by one or two very well supported accounts for years. Since I don't post Hive content as often now, they are just on a repetitive cycle, adding nothing new - still getting support though.
Work when others won't.
True and good advice from you. My concern about reporting was dealing with potential retribution from people with a lot more stake than me, so I just tried to post about subjects that they might not be interested in.
I'm surprised to learn that you were copied as well. This AI thing is nuts, and now I'm even seeing AI-generated comments from people who were posting in broken English just last year.