Only the article appearance is also not a big deal if the community wouldn't comment, re-tweet and share with lots and lots of people.

You are missing the whole point here. Nobody is trying to downplay you, but lots of people have spent days & nights to spread the word. The whole thing was a community effort.

Of course if you played a critical role with the articles, listings etc. you have the right to ask for a compensation. But the amount you are asking here is huge and out of proportion. At least, that's what I think.

Also the way you build up your story with...

• ask for compensation for those contributions through the DHF, rather than see my posts be over rewarded on Hive.
• and amount saved in getting free exchange listings, versus the suggested 150k-300k that would have been spent from either stake holders, or the DHF

Actually I think what we are discussing is not much different. We are talking about the same thing.

Again, of course you're free to create a proposal to cover your hours. But if the asked amount was reasonable, I would also support this.

I'm sorry, but asking this huge amount afterwards also doesn't feel right to me. At some point, you could create a post or a proposal for future work. Now it feels like it is going to be "pushed" instead of "asking". Considering your connections, you probably will get this through though.