I think it's really telling whether someone is just busy with life and not commenting/posting/curating, or whether it's a more intentional outcome of just not caring. Sometimes we do see moments where we get more caught up in our actual lives and can't commit a lot of time to Hive, and that's perfectly fine. In regards to comments, it's even fine to just not comment if you have nothing to say, but still curate other people's posts.
This isn't even a community problem specifically, it's a larger problem across Hive where too many people rely on larger curation guilds or whales to reward them, and thus they just don't care to interact in any other way with others, they just know they'll get the votes either way. Even if your vote is 0.01, it counts for something. It shows you're an active member of the community of Hive. It shows you have an intent to communicate and distribute rewards.
I agree that many times we are busy and don't have the time to respond, but as you say we can vote on that comment to let whoever wrote it know that it was read and appreciated, we can also visit their blog and leave them a comment and/or vote, on their last post the theme is to not be indifferent, to give it a name, to other users within this community and on HIVE in general
Yeah exactly! Voting takes no time whatsoever, so there really isn't an excuse for not doing it. Commenting is understandable: either nothing to say or not enough time in the moment. It happens.