RE: Unpopular Opinion...

You hit an interesting topic.

Commenting is indeed a way to go. It is kinda marketing for ourselves, when we leave interesting comments to the post creator. Whatever this is for such a creator, I don't know. I just know my comments can become a small to middle size post, espacially when I try to be thoughtful. This in itself, including reading the post thoroughly (not glance, but read it), the whole process takes much time. For high post earners, the time spend on reading and commenting is far less profitable than to write the next post and take in higher double digit $, to reading 10 to 20 posts and spend the time to write good comments, whatever good is. Though I sometimes feel a bit annoyed by such users, I usually look at things in a different way, a positive way. I like good posts, posts with content, posts with thoughts by the author. I like to read them on a mobile app, but I don't like to comment using a mobile app, simply due to the fact writing on a smart phone is mucho more slow to writing on a laptop with a great QWERTY keyboard. So I seem to add time between reading a post and commenting and always hope I keep remembering the posts I want to comment to. This post was one of them, I yes, I read yours yesterday, and today I remembered I wanted to respond.

Anyways, in the above, I didn't address your question. I try and do that right now and here 🥳

In my utopia world, all those authors doing good for HIVE content library, conversations and engagement, I like to see them spending a few minutes extra of their time to use their entire HP for rewarding as well, in a manual setup. Does it annoy me when they can't use all their HP because they delegated this? Not really. Ok ok ok, I may lie a little here. What I do know, any annoying feeling I have, I have to bin in the deepest bin I can find, since otherwise I will not stay active at HIVE. HIVE is GREAT, but it is far from 'fair'. Attention wise, money wise. One thing I can influence, which is attention. So I go for such. Money thingy, I cannot influence, so I try and not to think about that part.

Interesting observation you have with followers who unfollow quickly when they notice you wont came to their blog, or wont vote for their content. I see the same, not because I have much HP, but at least I control a button that can give others about 1.5$ on their post (Curie vote train). Happens with me as well, users follow and unfollow. Because of this button I control.

You know what annoys me most? Users who posts a lot and hardly comment. The K/E value we have, I dont look at. I have my own ways of identifying users and posts I give Curie votes. This included a lot more than just K/E. And executing already for 8 years. Time consuming for sure. Ever since I received the Curie powers (though a tiny vote value rather than a big one), I feel it is my responsibilty to give $ to the right users and posts. Whatever 'right' is. I can tell you, it is hard to give only votes to posts that I believe is right, while at the same time not upvoting the same user over and over again. So I change my rules almost daily. I mean, at days when I have more time, I spend more time searching for new users, better posts. Days I have less time, I go by a list of users I know quite well. For 8 years I hope someone would create a GREAT curator tool in which I can put all the parameters I for, and gives me the lists of posts and users that comply with my list. But no such tool. THAT ANNOYS ME THE MOST! No Dev being able to figure out what manual curator in fact needs! This is not a whole swarm of human post searchers and proposers, with some form of manual process for someone else to ok the post before landing a vote train, but great tools! These days, AI would be of great help, I think. So I need to spend time myself trying to create something for my needs, I suppose.