It is an individual story
I have brought 4 people in (no,I won't give you their names ๐). One of them went off to Splinterlands and after a while that faded away. Although, I think there is still an attachment. Another hangs around and votes sometimes. A third blogged for a while and then I think the rewards (financial) weren't commensurate with effort. The final one never blogged at all.
As you say, it's individual. What makes us stick around? For sure, if the price was higher, and compensation greater, more people would engage.
For me, at first I got really discouraged when I was ignored. Then my husband gave me a few hundred dollars from his hobby money to buy Hive, and I began to have a footing. After that, it was really @StemSocial (then it was SteemStem) that anchored me, and Curie. I found out if I wrote a really great, well-researched science article, StemSocial would notice most times and reward the post. Didn't matter who I was. StemSocial rewarded the effort and the quality of the post. Which is funny, because I'm not a scientist. I just worked really hard.
I'd have a heart attack if anything happened to Hive ๐ I know there are operators, and opportunists. But it is a community that has people like you, and @lemouth, and @jayna. People who are good, and community oriented, and want to help the community--because the community, no matter how small, is people. Or at least most of us are ๐
Oh I have ways to find out :) :)
Not saying I will though. But by now from my reputation or infamy you probably know that already:) lol
I bought 60 hive (steem) when it was $3, and I started :)
Oh it took to years to get any traction whatsoever! I even took a whole year off. Dec2018-Dec2019 I think:)
But as prices went down I bought and then bought some more, by the time of hardfork I had substantial stake. That helped
It's fun. And it does help a lot of people I have met here.
It's fun, and meeting community members offline is even funnier. This belongs to very good memories I have of the good old days :-)
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