New creators often put all their effort into publishing posts and barely think about comments. I think that is backwards. Especially on Hive. When you are starting out, you probably don't have much of

Every comment you leave, every vote you cast, every wave you post turns your username into a link. People click it. What they find in the next three seconds decides whether you gain a follower or a back

Votes and rewards tell you what people were willing to reward. They do not tell you what people actually read. A post can earn well and still be skimmed, or earn little and hold every reader to the last

The single most common reason a new Hive account stalls is not bad writing. It is posting into the void: publishing to your own young blog, where nobody is looking yet, and wondering why the silence.