...but there is a real problem here when many of the top earners do not comment or vote for anyone in the community or anywhere else in Hive.
I remember that when I arrived to HIVE 4 years ago someone recommended me to comment the publications of other users, he told me that it was an excellent way to make community and I have been doing it in fact I have a personal goal of commenting at least three publications within the community in which I will upload my publication, some days due to extreme fatigue it is difficult for me, but I try to do it.
Now, I notice for a while, with concern and amazement that there are people who do not have the delicacy and education to respond to the comment that someone left them, that for me is serious, because I have seen it even in community leaders and others seem to respond only to those who are their friends and the rest of the comments are ignored.
I particularly, I comment and if by chance they do not respond a first time I let it go, but if I visit another publication of the same hivers and it leaves me again without response I never comment again, because it is a lack of education as I mentioned especially if the comment is something that looks took effort and makes you know that they really took the time to read the publication, so I totally agree with what has been raised in the publication.
I think it's really telling whether someone is just busy with life and not commenting/posting/curating, or whether it's a more intentional outcome of just not caring. Sometimes we do see moments where we get more caught up in our actual lives and can't commit a lot of time to Hive, and that's perfectly fine. In regards to comments, it's even fine to just not comment if you have nothing to say, but still curate other people's posts.
This isn't even a community problem specifically, it's a larger problem across Hive where too many people rely on larger curation guilds or whales to reward them, and thus they just don't care to interact in any other way with others, they just know they'll get the votes either way. Even if your vote is 0.01, it counts for something. It shows you're an active member of the community of Hive. It shows you have an intent to communicate and distribute rewards.
I agree that many times we are busy and don't have the time to respond, but as you say we can vote on that comment to let whoever wrote it know that it was read and appreciated, we can also visit their blog and leave them a comment and/or vote, on their last post the theme is to not be indifferent, to give it a name, to other users within this community and on HIVE in general
Yeah exactly! Voting takes no time whatsoever, so there really isn't an excuse for not doing it. Commenting is understandable: either nothing to say or not enough time in the moment. It happens.
I don't think, it is malicious. The problem on Hive is, that many users have delegated their HP to large curation-accounts and are not voting manually. I can imagine that many writers think, no one reads their articles, when 150 votes come through at a time.
For a social platform, Hive is not optimally geared towards social interactions. I don't know, how to fix this, and you are correct in lamenting the fact of someone not responding to a comment, but the Hive experience can be quite isolating sometimes and many people will possibly just do the bare minimum as a consequence.
You are absolutely right, it is not geared towards that, but I think it is a matter of wanting to do it and yes sometimes the experience can be isolating, especially at the beginning, if you think you will have input right away, it is something that takes time, it takes effort it is a matter of discipline perseverance and even luck and that is why I think many people limit themselves to doing the minimum as you have pointed out, thanks for stopping by to comment.
Yes, that is also true. I'm getting back into the writing game here on Hive after a one-year hiatus as just a curator and gamer.
Wish me luck :)
It is not malicious, in that I agree but the content creator is like a little animal that lives on eating likes metaphorically speaking, not giving likes manually or with trail at least is like removing the necessary nutrients that content creators need to live and continue, I think the above applies whether small or large likes monetarily speaking.
Now the moral value of the like I think is why I fight what was raised in this post and in that moral aspect we are all worth the same if we like any article, I have noticed that here in hive many good things are taught and I think that giving likes is right to be part of that behavior because it is part of the interaction.
About hive as a social platform still not optimal in social interactions I think the following, time can solve this when the mass of people who consume the content and are not necessarily content creators, the latter is basically what I notice difference between Web2 and Web3 and that mass of people is what is missing in the food chain so to speak.
Nice to read you both chatting 😎