Hehe, good to know I'm engaging! I always considered myself as mostly introverted. I could leave more comments around the chain being mostly the quiet reader but I have my moments and do try from time to time. Like you said, you and I get it, newbies need to learn that aspect for sure before being overly critical of the "rewards" and where they go. I also think the content delivery is important but it seems to be hard to get that message across newbies, some content is hard to engage with.

Like yours, my account grew from engaging others, that's the whole point of social media is to be social. I tried to stimulate engaging content creation contest by having a writing photography combo about something meaningful in their lives reserved to newbies and nobody entered, it had a decent prize pool and a line up of bigger accounts ready to vote on them too. I'm under the impression some of them think Hive is money for nothing and the chicks for free! lol