The "high" paying posts are the Splinterlands contests. And we're never going back to all time highs.

What does it matter getting comments? Hive is not Reddit. People vote but rarely comment. That's just how it works. If you were to remove posts that have no comments from non bot accounts, you'd be left with less than 1% of the posts.

Of course I stopped posting. I saw that I was DVed for life, why would I work hard on my posts for no rewards? Even with the low rewards I was getting I was making less than minimum wage in most third world countries on most of my posts. But I was sharing with other people, it was something. But when a powerful user poops even on those low rewards, why should I keep posting?