HI @shahzad-ansari! People did read a lot. I have a list of my favorite authors on hive. If you also noticed, I refer people back to my old blogs so it doesn't die after 7 days. I also monetize my blogs with referral links of hive products.
My favorite tool was natural reader for read-out-feature. peakd started beta testing for read-out-loud.
It's ok to feel discouraged or left alone sometimes. Hive is competitive and most people care of just dropping their post and not reading others. It's very easy for us to find out who is not reading and writing comments like "nice post" etc. I call the monkey comments and I even sometimes downvote them if they repeated this on other ids too.
A better way to get more readers to left thoughtful comments on other blogs. I have a habit of reading a lot 5 blogs completed before curation. #IAMAREADER
(there r multiple tricks to get readers and as you can see on my ID, I receive a lot of original human comments.)
I agree with you that sometimes it is very evident by peoples comment if they have read the text or not. This was just an experiment I wanted do to as well as share my thoughts on this topic. I am glad you dropped a comment with your thoughts!Hi @dlmmqb,