Hi Hivers,
with this post I participate in the beautiful initiative entitled: "HiveComments - Interaction Initiative" proposed by 
Is interaction on Hive important?
Hive is the blockchain I love, I only write on Hive and I occasionally use the other centralized social networks just to promote Hive.
When a new Hive user contacts me on Discord or in general asks me for advice, my answer is always the same:
My first tip, therefore, for those new to Hive is to interact with people as much as possible.
Everyone is undoubtedly pleased to receive a good upvote but I write on Hive for pure pleasure and fun and for this I prefer to receive a nice comment of appreciation for my post than a single and generous upvote.
My second tip for new users is:
Interacting and sharing one's passion with others makes everything more beautiful.
Commenting is also a way to promote Hive
How many new users appear on Hive, write the first post and see that they do not receive positive feedback leave Hive?
I don't know the exact number, but of the people I've brought to Hive, nearly half have posted a few posts and some have left Hive after just one post.
Would these users have continued to post on Hive if they received more positive comments?
Maybe yes and maybe no but ...
I am convinced that if there were more comments and therefore more interaction there would also be more users on Hive.
And I am equally convinced that a comment of appreciation can help newcomers to overcome the first difficulties.
I still remember my first post: a review of Disney's Dumbo movie.
As you can see from the following photo, I received a lot of comments and a great reward :)
I was totally inexperienced, didn't know markdown well and didn't know all the tags and it took me a long time to write my first post, convinced that it would be of interest to many people.
Result: 3 upvotes and above all 6 comments.
Of the 6 comments I received, 5 were comments written by BOTs and only one comment came from a real person.
I didn't get demoralized but how many users could leave Hive and return to centralized social networks convinced that Hive is not for them?
Here's my first post is also a demonstration of how much interaction is important and above all it's a demonstration of how much comments, especially on new users' posts, are important for Hive.
How important is the interaction for me?
For me interaction is everything, it's very important.
After the Dumbo post I started to document myself, I read a lot of guides, I read a lot of posts and above all I commented a lot of posts, I followed groups and communities and everything has improved.
In about 20 months of Steem Hive I've written 6920 comments, on average about 12 per day.
Unfortunately my work takes up most of my time but I will try to comment more and more and interact more and more.
Reading and commenting on other authors' posts on Hive has allowed me to meet beautiful people I interact with and compare myself with every day.
Say hello is a right, answering is a duty!
My parents educated me from an early age to sociality, to comparison, to respect others.
A phrase that my father often said to me and that I made my own is:
Say hello is a right, answering is a duty!
This sentence applied to Hive could be reformulated as follows:
To comment is facultative, to answer is a duty!
I found myself in the past talking on Discord with some users who complained because their posts did not receive votes and comments.
Almost always the user who complained was thinking only about writing and commenting very little.
One user in particular did not even respond to the comments he received on his posts.
Those who comment on a post spent precious time to read and comment and the author who does not respond to one of his readers is an author who has little humility or simply writes only for himself.
Obviously there are exceptions.
- Those who receive a lot of comments may not objectively have the material time to respond.
- Who comments with phrases like "Nice post" does not give any added value to the post he read and commented and deserves an equally fast and superficial answer (but anyway the answer is to be given in my opinion).
- Those who have few comments and do not respond instead shows little humility and shows that they are focused solely on themselves and can't complain at all!
I personally, when I comment on an author several times and never get an answer, I simply stop following that author.
On Hive the least you can and must do is to vote for the comment received.
I'm not a blogger and I don't think I'm a skillful writer and surely some comments may have escaped me but I try to answer all the comments I receive and I vote all the comments to my posts.
Whoever comments on a post of mine is a person that I must always and only thank.
If I'm on Hive it's because I want to compare myself with others and I don't mind being contradicted or criticized and I think that constructive interaction is the true value of Hive.
Comparison is the only way to grow and improve.
And what value do you give to interaction?
I hope you liked my post and I thank you for reading it :)
