We are here for different reasons and our approach to writing is quite different. At some point, I always felt I wasn't communicating with other users on the platform because I was getting zero engagement on my content.
Am I doing it right or wrong ?, this question crosses my mind always and it steals motivation away from me.
On a particular day, I made a post asking other Hivers what they feel about my content and it was then I realised that I have been looking down on myself all along.
I always try to be my 100% self with my content and I realized that people on Hive also have different interests and not getting tons of engagement doesn't mean, I am not doing anything good, my content isn't just their interest.
It is impossible to give everyone on the platform what they want so it is pointless trying to do so. Being oneself as a writer will end up as a good decision because in the long run, the audience that have the same interest as you will definitely find you.
Today, I still don't have the desired engagement but I feel happy about Hivers who genuinely interact with me.
I took a look and see some engagement there, the quality of it I'm not sure about as I didn't delve into it.
It can be difficult to build relationships and so people tend to stay well within a little group they have around them a lot of the time, and that's limiting. It's a little easier for me as I have the #weekend-engagement concept bring posts to me directly that I can engage with, however that's three years old, there was three full years of my time here where it didn't exist...and in which I engaged a lot and built relationships.
It's all about consistency I guess, engage well with someone and over time they will (possibly) see you're here to stay and start engaging back. IT also comes down to your content of course. Actifit or dbuzz posts bore and repel me for instance, as do "finance" posts where people repeat what someone else said somewhere else. so no matter how good they are I don't engage with them.
You're involved with some concepts I noticed and that's ok, but operating within them alone, isn't going to get you out there very well. It's like throwing pebbles into a pond...they ripple outwards...So, throw some pebbles into the right ponds and things will happen.
Judging on numbers alone, your inbound engagement looks ok, *but is there value there or are people commenting with vapid remarks designed just to get comment numbers up? I also see some users have left you comments (on a post from three days ago) that you've not replied to...When people do that to my comments (fail to reply) I'll never go back. Ever.
Thanks for taking your time to check through. Dreemsteem once told me the importance of building relationships on Hive and I am working on that as well.
I definitely still have a lot of things to improve on and believe the improvement will keep coming as I relate to and learn from more people on the blockchain.
Those comments skipped my mind, I will always pay attention to that. Thanks again for the guidelines, I will definitely apply them.
No worries...I think it's well-established that relationships matter and that's why the right comments matter, the right words, not just any words; that can come later when the relationships is solid.