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"

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

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!

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

After a rather long hiatus, my wife — aka @cosmictriage — is finally back on Hive! I hope you'll give her a read and welcome her back!

For me, mostly not worth the bother. If we get close enough that a couple of 20lb bags of rice or a dozen cans of beans will take us over, I'll likely make the purchase but otherwise it just seems like

Yep, you have the hot times ahead... one of the joys of living in a somewhat temperate climate is that it rarely gets super cold, but also not super hot in the summer. There are some things we can't grow,

I'm just hoping the "every 4 years" pattern somewhat holds out... none of this would really impact my life unless it got to the $4-5 range. Till then it's just fin blogging!

We need more like Splinterlands. Splinterlands always stands out as bringing a massive influx of users to its own app/ecosystem rather than specifically to Hive. The point that is often missed is that

I believe we reach a point in life where we just get tired of presenting any kind of outward appearance that is in disagreement with how we really feel.

Thank you!

At least the yard waste portion is organic and biodegradable — eventually — but it becomes a very big pile, pretty quickly.

I think crypto is definitely "volatile" but so are biotech stocks and small to mid-cap tech stocks. Comparing crypto to to huge old-market company stocks is not really apples-to-apples. Crypto's