Ah yes, back "in the old days" you had to sign up for every new blogging site. What a mess in the inbox. And with most hobby bloggers being bad admins, your data was bound to end up in some dark web database at some point for sure.
All that is gone when using Hive. Sign up once, use it for every blog on the chain and even for your own and if done right, more secure than trusting your information to a company or hobby admin. That is one benefit we need to communicate to the "outside world". Those big players X and facebook have it, too. But we can also earn a little bit and have (not starting a discussion on that topic!) some form of democracy here to govern the chain.

Before I forget, thanks to @slothlydoesit for tagging me in his comment to make me aware of this post.

I never heard of an engagement league. Sounds very interesting. And looking at @tengolotodo I see a lot of genuine excitement and comments coming from such an event/organisation. But I also see lot of people commenting for comment sake instead of really engaging with the content. That is where @topcomment comes in. Brand new and already engaged on a comment to this post. I think that one is going places and I'm very cursious to see it grow.

There is a lot of good content here on hive and a cup of tea for every tastebud I think. We just lack a proper search engine and/or integration/connection to something like google or similar. And for reading "our stuff" those not (yet) on the chain don't even have to sign up. They can even view it through different frontends.

One big obstacle for people to join is still the understanding of what is actually going on here. How can a blog be on a chain. Earning crypto for simply commenting/thumb-upping/posting? Too good to be true. Must be a scam!? These are just some of the misconceptions that mix as first thoughts when someone reads on Hive.

And then there is the mystery of the hype. I think you chose your title well. It might be @commentrewarder or it might not be. But you got a catching title line and for this posting I think it was the right choice and the cause for most of the comments. Before coming to a conclusion, try @commentrewarder a few more times on other posts as well to gather more statistical data. I'll do so myself with my next postings, curious about the result.

It's been a pleasure writing this, have a nice day and happy new year.