Welcome to HIVE. You've probably noticed that HIVE is a tough audience for new users.

For example, I see that you didn't get a payout on your first three posts. The system does not give out post rewards when upvote total is less than $0.02 . People call the lost rewards "dust."

The Upvote Calculator shows expected rewards for a given amount of HP in one's account.

Hive has a low user retention rate because of poor interaction with new users. I've seen many new users leave after creating great posts with no upvotes or comments.

Back when I was in the plankton, I got rewards on only a third of my posts. I was extremely discouraged.

NOTE: HiveBuzz was originally called SteemItBoard before the Justin Sun fiasco.

The creators of SteemItBoard spent hundreds of hours actively engaging with new users to create a motivational system. So, @HiveBuzz did not happen by accident. It was created after a great deal of thought and interaction with new users.

The Solution to Dust

BTW: There are two bots that help with HIVE Dust. These are @dustsweeper and @dustbunny . You can hire @dustsweeper by transferring the free HIVE in your wallet to @dustsweeper . Dusty will use the transferred funds to upvote posts below the dust threshold. So, if you sent Dusty $1.00 , Dusty will vote on 50 posts with low vote totals.

As I recall, you can hire @dustbunny through a discord server.

Welcome to HIVE. I hope you find your sojourn worthwhile.