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RE: Why Newbies Struggle to Grow On Hive: ~ My Three Days Observations

in GEMS4 years ago

Thanks for the mention and glad you found my post helpful. The thing about posting rewards for new users is caution not to fall into complacency. Whether you are new or old to the platform, posting rewards are not guarantee. You can expect occasional decrease of rewards because the price of Hive can go down and that's generally beyond anyone's control, or at times have your posts downvoted.

The takeaway is not having a sense of entitlement to whatever content you put. Sometimes you get rewarded with big upvotes and sometimes you don't. So enjoy the rewards when you can but treasure the generosity of the people that gave it. I think many don't realize from the post I made is that I didn't get high rewards because it was good alone. I got that because of the generosity of the community that supports me.

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I don't understand when you talked about posting rewards. Can you please throw more light on that? I know about the upvotes system here and how generous whales are sometimes to some people so I know their upvotes aren't a fixed thing, sometimes we are just fortunate to receive them.
Thanks for your comment.

Never be too complacent about posting rewards. These don't necessarily mean the post is good, it may just mean people are generous enough to give you the support. Sometimes it's not really about high staked users valuing the post but more on valuing the person. I see users that get consistent support but never really interacted with other users. The lack of interaction and the illusion that their own content published is good for consistent rewards can get one in to be delusional about their own value to the platform. These can all change anytime that's why I don't count rewards on whatever post I make. We earn not by our content but out of the generosity of the users that surround us.

Oh, now I understand.
Thank you but I don't think I did that and I ever will.
Having a good upvote on your post is good but it is also good to have a genuine user who engages your content and adds value to it.