You can avoid this mistake by writing quality content — content that ignites conversations, adds value, and leaves you fulfilled.

I would sum that up as simply be yourself and let it flow. As a piece of advice for future new users is great, but when lining it up against the cruel reality that there is still quite a notable share of crap getting curated daily, quality won't guarantee anything. Quality is also highly subjective and what I though it could be of high quality proved to be below average and what I was labeling as average proved to be very good curated. BUT that doesn't mean that a post's quality is given by upvotes and nothing more. From an economical point of view, and for someone that tries to make something out of his/her blog, upvotes are like oxygen. What defines a post as a good one, in my opinion, is also the level of engagement but, the sad part is that quite often great posts don't get too much engagement due to a lack of visibility, and I would make a sort of a side trading page where there should be featured the most engaging posts and for sure many of those will get to the official trending page collecting some nice upvotes as well. Your post is great though and definitely a great users guide for a new user.