I think it's really telling whether someone is just busy with life and not commenting/posting/curating, or whether it's a more intentional outcome of just not caring. Sometimes we do see moments where we get more caught up in our actual lives and can't commit a lot of time to Hive, and that's perfectly fine. In regards to comments, it's even fine to just not comment if you have nothing to say, but still curate other people's posts.

This isn't even a community problem specifically, it's a larger problem across Hive where too many people rely on larger curation guilds or whales to reward them, and thus they just don't care to interact in any other way with others, they just know they'll get the votes either way. Even if your vote is 0.01, it counts for something. It shows you're an active member of the community of Hive. It shows you have an intent to communicate and distribute rewards.