RE: Unpopular Opinion...
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The people I started following over the past year on Hive create blogs about many different subjects. Some have stopped posting in the communities which was the reason for me to follow them in the first place.
A lot of times I just don't have any feeling with the subject or has 'everything' already been said in the comments.
"If you don't have nothing to add, you'd better say nothing at all"
I don't know whose quote it is, but I think it's a good one.
I try to visit the communities I'm interested in (which are photography and cycling related) and comment on the posts that trigger me, regardless of who the author is.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't comment on posts hoping that maybe the author will start reading my stuff and eventually upvoting it. That's just the way this whole thing works.
Good point! Hivers with a high stake get more comments. I think also because they often upvote the comments. A financial incentive motivates people to leave comments.
That is just the way it is.
That's why I started the Topcomment initiative over a year ago. We curate high quality comments, regardless who the author of the blog is.
This way we want to encourage people to engage more and not only with the whales.
You can even nominate a comment for an upvote yourself by mentioning topcomment by the way.
Sticking to communities is probably a good method, but until we are able to grow a bit more, I think that is kind of hard to do. It still baffles me that my grilling and smoking community only has a handful of users when similar communities on legacy platforms can have hundreds of thousands.
I had the same with my cycling community. It's quite hard to get a community active.