This is a very well written comprehensive insight on the "value of content" topic here on Hive. I hope more users take the time to read your thoughts @acidyo.
Most other social media platforms wouldn't pay most of our content creators a dime creating content on their platforms.
This was something I comprehended from the start and in the real world I physically show people my blog while they are sitting on their phone doing that scroll thing that people do for hours just liking short little videos and quotes. Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but we can spend those hours with likes that add value to the content we like and support communities. I try to deliver it in very simple terms to people, and they seem to understand just fine but for whatever reason don't want to take the time to even check it out, while I'm like "but I got these things called account tickets and can give you an instant account in minutes." Nope, they need to continue scrolling that fb feed for some reason...
The biggest winners on the other hand are those who come here with nothing, work their way into posting, commenting and receiving upvotes consistently and there's nothing wrong with that, it is after all the way the platform is designed. The gray area is when those content creators don't bring anything else of value to the platform and there's evidence that their content isn't even being consumed by accounts within the ecosystem thus the rewards they're earning is in one way "unfair".
I agree with this, and I'm not sure if the average user sees this or even cares, but it's a good insight for curators who have heavier influence over the share pool.
If a blogger has a talent that others find to be valuable content, there's usually communities dedicated to the content, and it offers the community of that content very little if the blogger doesn't respond to comments. Comments oftentimes are filled with questions from people genuinely interested in learning. It's also important in my mind to check out the accounts of the person commenting and decide what they are doing on Hive from a personal perspective. A perceptive individual with some experience on Hive will know in about 30 seconds what kind of blogger they are dealing with. I bet every talented blogger on Hive has at least 1 or 2 accounts commenting just for the upvote they know they are going to get for their comment, but that's another topic that's somewhat entwined into this one.
There's so many ways a blogger can even increase their influence to a community they love. I love the @canna-curate community, so part of my strategy for increasing my support to the community is through leasing HP, then I can reward comments without sacrificing my post support, and can even give a nice upvote for a very well thought out comment that I know took the person at least an hour to compose. That's what makes all the difference from places that offer no value to their users.
On Hive it's the users who run the show, not the show that runs the users.
Thanks for your hard work and dedication to Hive @acidyo.