I was sweating bullets as I clicked on the HiveBuzz link, ready to be ashamed.

Turned out I'm doing pretty good :-P -- 5:1 is a decent ratio, although I can do better.

I agree so so much with what you say here: "There's nothing I dislike seeing more than well rewarded authors, who not only aren't really that influential outside of hive to say bring some traffic over for their rewards and be of value that way, but at the same time take the rewards for granted and don't even acknowledge comments on their posts with a vote or a reply. "

It's so true - I try to focus on building, not tearing anyone else down. Nonetheless one thing where Hive could do even better, is to try and avoid repeatedly rewarding content with no target audience.

Some posts regularly earn $50+ for content that, frankly, is probably not being watched/read by almost anybody, and that's usually going to be a lackluster allocation of resources. There's no perfect answer, the free market values the posts and that's how it should be. Just something that we all can keep working on.

I feel like a new goal is in order... If I get to 50:1 post/comment ratio, by that measure, I'll be 10xing my contribution to Hive :-P