I've read some interesting tips for being successful on Hive from 
If your content is not interesting, people will stop following you. It's important to be consistent but this doesn't mean that you have to write a post every single day. Keep the quality of your product as high as possible and make it more interesting by making it less abundant. Always remember that the people following you maybe can't be online every day and maybe they also don't want to comment your content every day...
This paragraph gave me the idea for my post for today.
Absolutely! If the quality of your content is on a descending curve of quality or if it no longer reflects the interests of the person who hit the "follow" button, they might unfollow you.
Ideally, the quality of the posts should increase over time, not plateau or decrease.
Where I see a risk is in setting a too high standard of quality for your posts, and not publishing anything until you find the right topic and the time to make the post look exactly as you want to. On one side, sometimes a higher standard means it addresses a narrower audience these days (not always). But that's not what I want to discuss in this post.
Quality is important, but seeking perfection is often a mistake. And it's a balance many don't reach: when trying to improve the quality of their writing and the message delivered, themes approached, etc., it's easy to fall on the side of seeking perfection.
Being constantly unpleased by your work and wanting to improve it (seeking perfection) can affect creativity, inhibit oneself, and maybe lead to a block. Not a situation a writer or content creator would want to be in often.
Publishing content regularly doesn't leave much room for perfectionism, and that's a good thing. Conversely, if someone uses this as an excuse to drop the quality of their content over time, that's unacceptable, in my opinion. Unless, of course, they want to completely change the niche, in which case a good part of their followers may not choose not to follow them for the new type of content.
We also have to keep in mind that content creators of any kind may have good or bad periods too. It may be related to their inspiration or lack thereof, or to events they have in their lives you won't know about unless they share the details.
If someone waits for a bad period to pass, first of all, how will they know if it passed if they don't test the water? Then, at least on Hive, we often have seen situations when posts we were proud of didn't receive the recognition we thought they deserved, and other posts that maybe we thought were kind of average generated serious engagement or votes.
And finally, when someone reads their feed and doesn't see your name today, tomorrow, the following day, and so on, at first they might wonder what's going on with you, but after a while, they start to forget and create other connections with authors they read and engage with often. Sure, you might post twice a week, and they might be very good posts (but not the kind that gets on the trending page), but they may get buried in the feed and your regular reader starts missing them. And then, we are back in the situation of being slowly forgotten.
