Greetings @hannes-stoffel, and thanks for the thoughtful comment! I'm afraid you made it here after the @commentrewarder cutoff time, so all I can offer you is an upvote. I have long thought it is a bit

Thank you for stopping by, and the same to you! Good to see an "old face" still on Hive!

Thank you @ewkaw!

And meanwhile, we worry about overflowing landfills... At least our washer and dryer are still good... Swedish Electrolux machines from when they were still good. Everything else? Not so much... One of

Of course, what you say rings true for me, as well... and perhaps part of the reason I never really "succeeded" at Facebook or twitter/X is related to the fact that I value my friendships and

Not as much social engagement as there used to be... and with Hive having beem valued low, few people have sufficient HP to upvote comments.

"Smombies." I like that! I think these trends often work like the swing of a pendulum... something is "new and exciting" so everyone flocks to it, but gradually they discover that there

Happy New Year to you, as well! Let's make 2025 a great one!

It's very difficult to get "heard" and seen in this day and age... people get so much information to their computers and phones every day.

I blame Disney... OK, so that was a joke, but in all fairness most popular fiction portrayals of love is conditional, that is, men (mostly) are trained that they have to earn a woman's (mostly) love...

There are some big egos at play there, but Trump is pretty famous for firing pretty much anyone who's not in lockstep with his ideas of the moment. Elon is only loyal to a version of America that furthers

Yes, commentrewarder does seem to do the job. To wit, see screen shot below of this post and my post from the day before... both of which have similar rewards and number of upvotes. I'll check out the

I found Steem accidentally back in January 2017, and what made me excited about it was (A) that it seemed like a return to the format of "social blogging" I so enjoyed during my earliest days

There's often little rhyme or reason to the ways of social media... anywhere. Why do some memes go viral, while others live forever in obscurity? The world is fickle and hard to predict. The "norm"

And nothing wrong with that... as I recall, the @crypticat blog was always more of a photoblog than anything else. Nonetheless, you're still a content consumer, and thank you for that!

You're a positive exception here because you are not only very engaging in terms of commenting, but also in terms of overall active involvement in the Hive community. "I would tell people Hive is

I have found that @commentrewarder definitely does boost the engagement level on posts... and I'm quite content to share 5-10% of the post's rewards in service of getting more engagement. It's just too

It's one of the Hive discussions I have long been part of: We need content consumers, not just content creators; hence the need for people to promote their content in places external to Hive... or at least

Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate it!

Thank you! I think you touch on one of the important parts of this whole question: WHY people are part of Hive. For me, it was about the social blogging experience; the rewards/earning potential has always