since a key foundation of hive is that people get rewarded for posts and posts are made visible based on those rewards, i am sure that the marketing efforts being paid for by ignite will not be telling people that actually they need to ignore these foundations and not worry about visibility on the network. not only does this go completely counter to how social networks generally work, it also goes against principles of competition and marketing.. basically, it goes against everything that most people are most used to. worse than that, it's not explained anywhere in an obvious way and i hightly doubt that ignite are even aware of the logic you are using here.
i suggest maybe you contact them to explain the situation.