You are 100% correct.
And I want to have that conversation with OCD curators :)
Believe me, I had that conversation many times in the past. It is not an easy conversation but that doesn't mean I don't want to have it.
Looking at your blog, people rarely even have a conversation with you, while you are an interesting and reasonable person, and live in an interesting part of the world a place we know little about.
You have much to contribute and your do, but rarely people care, so you have stopped caring too. Am I right?
PS. the little riddles are not mine, I have no connection to that account.
I'm fine having conversations with people about this (and anything really), more than happy to. I tend to only face people head-on if I feel that isn't an option. Anonymous account and condescending poetry aren't exactly conversation starters.
Yeah I think that largely comes from some niche interests. I don't think many have much to say about comics on here. As far as I'm aware there's about 3 or 4 of us that do it somewhat frequently. Hive Book Club itself is also quite a niche community so the engagement is relatively low. I was a moderator for it at one point and it was difficult trying to boost engagement. Quite a few other communities suffer the same fate of a general low interest.
There's another side to this though that I have tried to deal with. A lot of the old friends I had on here simply aren't around anymore. A lot of people I used to talk to even on discord from here just stopped posting. It wasn't long ago that I mentioned this in some Snaps and was asking people to recommend new accounts for me to follow and engage with that had similar interests to mine like photography, travel, comics, etc. I did get a few good recs and followed them.
I would say you're wrong there regarding me not caring. I definitely care and have a great amount of fun sharing the things I do and interacting with people. If we are to talk about my HP specifically in the event that is what you're referring to by not caring: it's a case of wanting to reorganise everything, build HBD Savings, have liquid for catching the pumps here and there on spot, and then building the HP. I have a few side things not on Hive I've been working on to add to some passive income to build the HP through actual purchases. Coming from English teaching here to selling drone footage. I've mentioned that a lot in my posts over the past year.
Anyway, good to actually talk to someone instead of just odd clashing and unnecessary drama.
Do you know @blewitt
I do now :^)
Thanks for the recommendation, gave them a follow. It would be pretty cool to get this side of Hive a bit more activity.
But yeah, I've been aware of how dead my comments (and actually my incoming curation because it's pretty much curie that throw anything my way outside of travel posts). I actually used commentrewarder for a while which is a great tool, but depending on what I posted it didn't make much difference and I'd just get refunded with no comments to upvote. Don't wanna stop posting about the things I enjoy so I just keep going.
Also @bravetofu
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@bravetofu/making-a-splinterlands-comic-book-with-ai
By the way, who is operating the @plonketypiano account? As going after people like me seems odd when there's people with 60k HP in author rewards, 2.7k in curation rewards, and effective HP currently at 1.9k HP and they're making getting curated $20 - $150 a post with nobody seeming to care. Almost 1k HP in author rewards a month (excluding beneficiaries)
It is a bit odd to get this treatment with less author rewards (present and historically) and higher curation rewards than them when that takes place ignored.
I have no idea. However, I support the action of that account. A much needed tool for slight reward adjustment.
Look at the benefit, without that account would you have a conversation with me? :)
Yeah I'm not opposed to it. But in that case better transparency is needed. Almost screams conflict of interest when the account is anonymous and there are people making (and have made) 2x, 3x, 5x more. Took me a few minutes to find much higher earning accounts that haven't had their chance at reading some poetry yet and I'm sure they never will. Ah, Hive. :^)
Even then, I do think context matters in some situations. During the pandemic era I was having to sell off almost all my Hive just to help my mother keep her house and afford food given the skyrocketing costs of things in the UK.
Yeah I do appreciate those recommendations. Going travelling tomorrow and my time will be thin but I'll take a deeper look and see if they also lead to similar accounts to check out.
Thanks again. If you do stumble across more, feel free to throw them my way. It is much appreciated.
Currently in a cafe at the moment so I'll check them out a bit later once I'm home.