I'm even more of a newbie here than you are, so I don't yet understand how reputation is calculated or what its effects are. But from common sense I can suggest that you stop resteeming so much. Since I follow you, it fills up my feed and the only way that I can stop that is to unfollow you. I wish that there was a way to follow you without receiving what you resteem. If I eventually unfollow you, that will be the reason.
My reputation climbed to 40 in only 30 days. Why not imitate what I do for 30 days and see what happens:
(1) Never post more than once within a several hour (at least two) period.
(2) Don't post unless you really have something to say.
(3) Reply to everyone, always, unless it is clear that no reply would be expected.
(4) Do not have anything to do with resteem bots. (I mute them immediately with zero tolerance.)
(5) Do not upvote yourself and be selective in spending the 10 votes that you get each day.
(6) Sad to say, but the reality is that people don't come to social media to hear what you have to say. They are awash in information and commentary. People come to social media because they are lonely, desperate for human connection. They want someone to listen to them, to connect with them.
My blog posts are not why I am here. I am here to experience community, to develop sacred, human relationships with individual people. If you are here for any other reason, it probably won't work.
Try this:
https://steemit.com/steem/@steem-plus/steemplus-extension-now-available-on-chrome-opera-and-firefox
Thanks for your feedback, it's really appreciated.
I am resteeming to support others who have good content so they don't have to rely on vote bots to get exposure.
Hopefully the feature you're after will be in STEEM soon, I know you can do that already on twitter.
My reputation was at 40+ before the #hgin flagging of all my posts.
So at the moment, I am not posting any longer posts as they won't get much exposure.
Your advice is really good. Maybe you can put it into a post so more people can see it. If you do so, let me know and I will resteem you.
@kabir88