Thanks for running this experiment. I do instant now what you meant by it being to run two accounts.
You did make some serious amount of engagement happen. I’m glad to hear you managed to do so well.
I’d like to make an observation though. For someone who is new to hive there is one more thing that makes it difficult to engage in rewarding engagement. Knowing who to engage with.
Consider a newbie that has found a topic somewhere online and has managed to sign up without outside help and is therefore totally in his/her own. They don’t know about know about hive-engine yet, so likely they end up going to the trending topics trying to find good quality content.
How long does it take them to find ocd, neoxian city, palnet, leofinance etc. and how long before they strike up meaningful conversation?
How many have given up before that point? I’m afraid it’s the majority of signups. Mostly because the majority of people on hive is still here with a tv broadcasting mentality.
Still, if you want it and you go for it. If you put in the work, then through meaningful engagement anyone can become a whale on hive.
I myself made good progress this week. My hive power grew from 6 HP to 25HP through some lovely tips and a big upvote.
It's good to see that your account has increased. You mention it was through tips...Did they come out of the blue or were they in response to something you did? I would imagine they were the latter, responses to some actions or activity from yourself. If that's the case you should do more of that as it seems to be working.
I understand what it was like for a new account, I was one myself three years ago and finding people to interact with was a trial and error process, it's like anyone pioneering in a particular area; Mistakes are made, then adjustments and one moves forward, possibly to make more mistakes.
I find it interesting though, that people whinge and complain about being new and small, and yet fail to engage with someone (let's say me) when the opportunity is freely given. On Friday I even offered 40 hive, just for a comment left, and yet so few smaller accounts engaged with it...So, the hive will go to a more established user who read the post and engaged.
And therein lies the issue...People are quick to complain about what they don't have, rather than work towards what they want. There's no free rides here, although I offered one on Friday and still it was not accepted by many at all. Back when I was very new I would have jumped at the opportunity to won some free hive from just a simple comment.
Knowing who to engage with isn't the issue, I see that as another excuse. Engage with everyone, work out who engages back and do so some more. Engagement isn't about targeting big accounts or curation projects for reward. A user doing that will almost certainly get no reward from it.
If I have misunderstood your comment fell free to clarify, but please don't forget that three years ago I was no different to any other user starting from scratch, so, I understand. There is no free ride here, only the one that a user creates for themselves.
The good thing is that you seem to know the right way to go. Well done.
I agree with what you said. For me it has been a journey indeed to figure out who responds to my comments and posts.
The tips came as a result of meaningful posts and comments indeed, so I’ll certainly continue with that.
Too bad I missed your 40 hive for a comment post. I would’ve certainly jumped at the opportunity.
You haven't missed that post. Look at my blog feed and you'll find it clearly titled.
Keep up the good work.