Most people believe to earn on hive, you just create content (author/comment) and curation. Most do not understand that you must have your tokens staked and also upvote to get curation rewards. Also, the tag of the token must be on the post that is being upvoted.

Upvoting a good post with tags for which you do not have any staked tokens means you are actually not really awarding the author for their good content except with hive.