Enjoyed the post, it's spot on. It's the engagement aspect of this platform that will make or break it. The reward system is great to bring people to the platform and hopefully inspire good content and behavior but it's the actual human interaction that will keep people coming back.

I know that for me, when I take the time to write a post or comment I'm hoping that someone finds some kind of value in it. That's the point of sharing with each other right? Hopefully we learn or grow or laugh or see a new perspective.

and if there is value in what we're sharing beyond just the reward, it's the actual engagement that translates it into those human emotions and feelings that come from knowing that you're interacting with someone that actually found what you had to share valueable and worthy of engagement, no matter how small.

When you spend a good chunk of time writing up a post to share with the community and put yourself out there to just find a bunch of crickets or some bot is your only reply, it's disheartening.

Meeting people, exchanging ideas, helping each other out, being part of a community, that's all the goodness. The rewards should be just an enabler of those things.