I was checking through pob accounts this morning, then I noticed that some of the people I introduced to the platform have not been active for weeks, I proceeded to my feeds and then I realized that a lot of people have stopped posting contents, the people who still do posts once or twice in a week or two.
I could remember 2 months back when we used to have numerous introductory posts daily. Some of the newbies doesn’t even know hive existed, I met one or two, they do not know that pob is a tribe under hive. They were introduced to pob directly and were doing well as newbies. Proofofbrain brought more users to hive than other tribes did back then.
It is understandable that the level of upvotes and the price of pob at that time contributed so well in the inflow of users, and that the decrement of pob price and upvote level might have discouraged them which is understandable especially with newbies.
Most of us joined hive and pob because of the rewards, it was after we got to understand the things being done here and when we got used to other users that we started to have reasons to stay back regardless of the price and rewards. Personally, I made more of new friends here on hive than I did physically this year.
We should make newbies see more reasons to stay here regardless of the rewards, just like people are flooding social media which adds 0$ to their lives.
I believe that aside the rewards, other things that contributed in the inflow of users back then was the live and fun we put into our activities and weekly challenges (pob-wotw, pobtalk, pob-contest, pobdaily, pob-qotw, pob story telling, and all others). Even though the idea to develop content might not be there all the time, consistency in this contests gave people more reasons to be active, they knew that when it’s time for the winners to be announced and new challenges, it will always come on time. They also knew that when they participate in this contest, they get rewarded as long as the content is not plagiarized and the rules of the contests are taking into consideration.
I was pleased to see the rise in POB engagement chat posted by 
Be your brother’s keeper
We should all endeavor to check up on users who appears not to be active. Everyone was introduced by someone, so I believe that we all can contact one or two people personally and encourage them. Doing so will make them feel warmly welcomed. Everyone matters, but we can only show them by checking up on them.
Better days are yet to come on hive, pob and rest of the tribes.