I found your latest podcast with People's guild very enlightening, particularly the bit about posting comments vs simply upvoting people's posts!
I have been posting about Splinterlands on HIVE for a little bit (over a year consistently), I even use curation trail and yes I hold over 200k SPS tokens and yet as you have mentioned I don't have 10k HIVE! I will make it my goal to reach 10k HIVE and interact more with people on HIVE.
Networking is an important aspect of social life and it is no different here. More people you know personally and make friends, more your reach.