Because of my curation tasks, I have begun to be more selective when it comes to supporting the authors. It doesn't seem fair to me to reward those who don't contribute anything and just want to take advantage of the system selfishly.
It works like that! And you are not alone... If I support someone constantly and the person doesn't even bother to reply to the comment and appreciate my time, I will stop doing it after some time... It is completely normal to do it... Why would I invest my time in someone who doesn't appreciate what he/she has?
As I said in the post, I know that some people doesn't care about the platform, or other people, and they are here just for upvotes... But there are other people who don't understand from WHERE those upvotes come, and they don't appreciate others who upvote them as they don't understand about the weight, the sacrifice, the accumulation time of HivePower...
That's the reason why I like to create posts like this... Just to show to newbies (and some older users) from where the money comes... There are real people behind HP, and behind every Hive username... and sometimes, we do forget that...