It is an excellent answer/explanation @acidyo, and what I mostly want to add here is that it takes us back to the same issue that was always circling the drain on Steem: Is this seen as a content creation venue or just as a money dispenser?

Further to that... for the future growth and success of the entire Hive ecosystem, I think we need to be very careful in terms of how we describe Hive to potential new people. As I have said (about 6.5 million times!) as long as the primary sales pitch is "come to Hive to make money" the people who will be attracted to that will really not care very much about the content they create... they are purely going to focus on optimizing their rewards. And so, that particular snake will continue to eat its own tail.

So then the only way to change things is to start focusing on community and content creation. But there are a lot of people already embedded here who won't agree that's a good idea.

I have recently started creating posts that are entirely for "external" consumption, and it's interesting to see just how many page views some of them are getting. Now, whether that translates into new signups remains to be seen... but at least we have some tools now, like Hiveonboard, and such.