I read your post from last night, along with some of the comments on it. I was a little busy to comment on it myself at the time, but I think one of the "problems" with that task is that people have a problem with selling themselves, and that is essentially what the task entailed. You have 100 words to sell yourself, and that is something that a lot of people are not comfortable with.

Ultimately, though, the whole experience of HIVE and making progress on it is about selling yourself. If people took you up on your task, they would have 100 words to sell themselves and their interests to you and your followers. Then, if any of those folks visited their blog, they would have a "Second date" opportunity to sell themselves to potential new followers. But that is just not something a lot of people are comfortable with.

I think the instant gratification mentality hurts a lot of people's ability to sell themselves. People look around at the bigger accounts and try to mimic how they post, expecting to get the same results. By becoming a parrot of what someone else is doing, they are not putting their best self forward, or as this post speaks to, not doing something they are good at, and then wonder why the rewards are not what they wanted.

People really need to work on selling themselves if they want to find long term success on HIVE or any other platform where they put together original content. As has been said in countless places, HIVE is not for everyone. But those who do what they love and sell themselves over the long term will carve out a worthwhile piece of the honeycomb.