I totally know what you mean about users who reap big rewards and then they don't even bother to comment back. I think what also bugs me is when I find someone I like and I read their posts and comment on them, but they never comment on mine. I get it that maybe my content isn't their cup of tea, but you would think at least occasionally the "broken clock" would be right right?
There is a value in being read, beyond the monetary.
The exchange of consciousness - the exchange of time. You may optimize your time, manage it efficiently but there is nothing you can do in this life to substantially increase it.
You may stake some value in your health - and expand its duration by perhaps 10%, but nothing you or I will do will substantially increase it. When you read and comment you're giving essentially your most valuable token.
I've always said that if HIVE goes to zero I would probably be sad, but not because of the potential money I have lost on the platform, but the time I would have lost.
100% one of the many reasons I want HIVE to persist.
It'll never go to zero really, think about all the people that are here and hold other coins/fiat that may overshadow their hive holdings, sure it would potentially get more centralized that way but I'm sure many would buy it for cents just for fun.
I'm a bit guilty of that, I'm sorry 😅 Hopefully I'll have more time to go back to the roots soon where I mostly just comment and consume like I did in 2016 lol
No worries, I wasn't even thinking of you when I wrote that. :) There are others who are far greater abusers of this. I kind of get it because as your account grows you get more and more people interacting with you hoping for one of those upvotes. It would be a full time job trying to touch base with all of them, but when you are just hitting the same people over and over, or even worse, no one, then it is bad.