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Hello and good morning. I suggest to join #mammasittas steemit chat and more than welcome to add your links. Sometimes its difficult and we all overlook lots of good content.
Can't be always online but if somebody reminds me in my group,I check it out.
It takes a long time to build up your own followers. Never count on whales or anybody's support. Promote your articles everywhere. Twitter, Join Facebook groups or whatever. Good luck.

oh yeah of course was even thinking of doing what you already have a live chat feature :) wink :) i only the chat was integrated, I normally spend hours promotion more so than actually writing, around 4:1 ratio :D I do wish more people took note of the enormous time it takes to make quality and not just autovote and autocomment(hi good post @ .. ) i get in the case of non-native or non-fluent english speakers but still, it's very frustrating for me seeing 200 votes 10 views and 0 comments and that is a trend for a while, other than that I completely agree with you and I've been promoting only on steemit and bumping people here dragging them around :D twitter and facebook eat up too much time and socializing in five places is really a timesink in my eyes, even if I get 500 views, i do wish it would be more natural and there was actually a social aspect, where people actually care a bit more about content and not just about trending and trading posts(voting for profits on posts) it actually took me 30 minutes to upvote maybe 100 no 126 posts over at the trending page (20 mins) and fee page (10 mins) I was in quite a rush and using keyboard skills :D ctrl f (search) :D and space to scroll past everything, then I made a few scans up and down then a substantial view and done, :D bot curation :D not that hard :D i guess I'm trying out new algorithms

anyways there are many open people here and building some connections is hard not to mention it's really swamped and getting through everything is hard so I do understand why people use tools and features to ease the use, we can't all be keyboard hermits :D

Final note, I've been building followers, but having 1000 followers and having 200 bots trailing you don't measure up to the same results :D 800 of those might miss the post and unless you are really special (like yourself :) ) :) not many people would take the time to go directly to you :)

finally one question am i writing too much and is this a bit too long?

I suggest you focus mostly on creating quality content first. Forget the politics! Put your passion into every article and correct your English as well as possible. Find your own niche. Autovotes have a reason. I do because I have learnt to trust certain authors and their constant great articles I do
nor wish to overlook or forget to support the effort.
New people will earn and deserve their votes of course, sadly overlooked but once again, it will take time to be noticed and appreciated.