Maybe what you should try is reinvest in yourself, power up you and stop thinking about the early reward. If you can afford to buy some steem at an exchange and powerup yourself it will make you to be noticed sooner.
Don't get frustrated, just take the time to educate yourself to use the platform for your benefit.
But only time will tell...
#Steemit is a new platform with lots of flaws and bots, bots are the ones that bring some shade on legit users, but you need to learn to use them as well.
