@hitmeasap good post. You shared what 1,000s of us are going through. Good news is this post got you into a daily gem so that should hopefully help with exposure. It's how I found you.
Quality of content without positive re-enforcement will suffer as you stated. Bottom line is upvotes = a pat on the back. Regardless of what anyone says, we all feel good or get motivated by a pat on the back. By someone saying good job.
I made light of this by creating a post called The Minnow King. It was a funny competition on who could have the most upvotes and make 0.00 on it. My record is 24 upvotes....sadly that post did not get much action and the closest challenger was 9 upvotes! haha. So I hold the crown of the minnow king.
Someone needs to come take my crown!
Thank you. That's cool! Which gem was it? :)
Daily Diamonds From Authors Worth To Learn From #4 - posted by @asuran about an hour ago. I follow him so see these. Hoping to make one of them soon enough! :-)
Thank you for sharing. That's awesome :)