Hey Dan,
We totally understand, we will try to come up with some ideas over the weekend, this is one of the reasons we created The Curator - with the last three posts we may be in the same boat. We've been talking about what affects post, and wonder what factors affect post - which could be a combination of what time the post was posted, being active and commenting on Steemit, but also being involved in the discord rooms, tags, etc.
We are seeing a lot of knowledgeable posts being undervalued.
We do have a discord stream for The Curator, we haven't given out the link yet do you think that may help with morale and keep motivated being able to chat with others.
There is the ADSactly Community discord which is great for keeping up morale and motivation, also steem speak and steem gigs.
I'll add your post in the discord rooms that I'm in for Steemit post promotion, but can't say if that will help.
I think it would be great to get everyone feeling this way together so we can all come up with some ideas that can help everyone.
Let us know what we can do to help!
Keep your chin up Dan!