My biggest frustration is the lack of interaction. I did a poetry series that did pretty well. I had some whale attention so it earned a respectable amount of money. But nobody ever commented. Well, they did, but rarely. I read early on here that commenting is how you get to know people, get their attention, and I am a prolific commenter on other people's posts. But it's hardly ever reciprocated and for that reason, I feel exactly as you state above - my upvotes are business transactions from people who probably don't even read my posts. It saddens me and bums me out almost daily, because I'm investing a lot of time here, and feeling really, really lonely. Rewarded, but lonely.
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Probably the votes came from a curation guild. A professional curator found your poetry and considered it worthy of being rewarded since you were new and it was original creative writing. Once approved by the guild some whales have bots that will upvote it in support of the guild effort.
Unfortunately a downside of this approach to curation is that it focuses on volume and spreading the wealth but does not naturally tend to lead to discussion.