Prayer works, it all depends on the deity and your relationship with them. In this case @smooth upvoted him and it insta-cured his ailment. This makes smooth the steemit jesus. I can vouch for his prior status though cuz I spent half of yesterday upvoting him and a dozen others like him in a separate thread.
Also remember if your post is buried there is steemit.chat where you can pop in and ask for people to look at it.