It gave me the idea to ask this because I'm practically receiving one or at most two upvotes from him every week and in my opinion that's not enough for what I try to do on the platform.
Maybe it's my lack of consistency, I don't know... or the responsible people on the curation team who aren't appreciating my efforts. As they owe me a Premium subscription, I don't even know when they will pay, but I have to set aside 10 HBD this month.
$10 here in Brazil, Task helps a lot. It may seem like "little" but it's worth it a lot.
There are a lot of others reasons to have premium than just upvotes.
I dont like the idea of promoting it based upon solely upvotes but that is what they do.
You're right, there are other ways to promote but even though they are doing it this way, they are still not being as effective.
I've even spoken to some Brazilians who are disappointed because they no longer intend to buy Premium.
You may have noticed that on Hivebr the number of comments has dropped a lot. This was the result of some "disappointments" on the platform. The last straw was the way they changed the rule at the last minute about the battle of communities...
But life goes on...