I could advise him on was being and remaining active, building connections, a rich and genuine engagment both outside and on his own posts, etc.
It feels like that's something many take for granted these days,
Yes it is. I have noticed it too, as many people are getting that "easy money - some not even commenting much on their own posts. It is crazy how much effort many people go to on the other platforms for nothing more than "reputation" and some sense of power for moderators. Here - people take it all for granted.
I keep wondering what those users would do if their effort wasn't just met with a little attention and some random points but with actual monetary value.
This is something I have never understood here - why aren't they here? It definitely isn't the downvotes.
It's something I've done on Reddit in forever and many subreddits thrive on mainly that, the comment section
Would love some "hive-powered" Reddit forums. I am not sure how, but embedding them into a Hive interface with a HIVE plugin mechanism for voting. Might be a good proof of concept.
I think having those active people here and the moderation at the "reddit level" would also help normalize the downvoting processes for Hive too. Would be interesting to see what it would be like to have 10M users all doing their thing :)
Many of them were, back when we had a million+ users as Steem - and they left because none of them got rewarded (like most creators that come here - unless they're crypto shills)
There was never a million users on Steem, there were a million accounts. Quite a difference.