Man, the key is not the effort you put in but the resulting quality and the visibility of your content. You can't measure quality if you don't know your audience. A post with lots of views and just a few upvotes means that your audience is not like your post. You don't have an audience without making connections, so make steemit friends, learn about their interests & schedules for reading, write posts easy for them to enjoy, grab feedback about why your writing sucks, improve your writing,... just keep looping this cycle :)

And yes, I said your writing sucks, yet you got talent for writing a lot! It is not your syntax, nor your very particular style, it is just that your text is hard to skim and the introductory text is long enough to miss what the topic was in the first place.

Example: "Let me explain.", you use that expression alone, when skimming it looks like a title, then I notice it is not in bold and it has a closing period, my mind was freaking out!! Maybe you should use "...", or "elaborate" instead of "explain". Also, one is supposed to use that expression in a conversation or talk, not in a blog post or an article.

Hope you understand that skimming is step number one before deciding to actually read an article or even just give it an straight upvote, so...

-- @develcuy