I appreciate you providing this information. I took a cursory look at the Hivestar link, because I found it an interesting idea. The post author upvoted himself 100% (for $0.00), Ecency voted a nice $4.469, and the 13 other votes amounted to ~$.02. Strangely 9 of those 13 voters all voted at 9.5%, a specific weight that suggests all those accounts are bots controlled by one user. Is @contestbox your account? If not, why didn't you upvote the post, or comment on it? It would seem very little effort went into encouraging @lucirace to participate on Hive if you didn't even upvote or comment on his post announcing Hivestar.
I haven't looked at any of the accounts that voted on that post, to see if they post or regularly curate content on Hive. I'll bet you they don't, though, because they don't have substantial stake, and none of them commented on the post.
The only comment on the post was from Hivebuzz, congratulating the OP for receiving 10 upvotes in his Hive career, and letting him know his next goal was receiving 50 upvotes. @lucirace only posted a couple tests before that post, and has never posted again. They have never received that next badge from Hivebuzz for receiving 50 upvotes.
Hivestar seems a neat idea, and while I haven't tried it to see if it even works, it looks well done in the post about it. But, as far as marketing Hive and bringing new users onboard, it doesn't seem to be a remarkable success. Other than Ecency, the creator, and the bots, there were only 4 other votes for the post, much less a flood of signups. Can you provide the cost of the hackathon at which Hivestar was the winner, please? It seems to have failed to even onboard the developer that won the prize and coded Hivestar. Are you aware of anyone that has signed up and become a Hive user as a result of these hackathons? I searched vihaan, because 4 of the links you provided above had that in them. I found a post from @mayank18 about it, with a 3speak video and everything. It was @mayank18's only post on Hive ever. I noticed you didn't upvote that post or comment on it either, so gave them no encouragement to participate on Hive. You say you're not a blogger, and you don't seem to curate the content resulting from your hackathons, nor comment encouragingly.
Every now and then I slap a level on whatever I'm building to check my work. You're working to onboard new users to Hive. How do you check your work, and show us you're on the level?
Thanks!
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