Good thing what you said above is to not worry and you will have results. One day I've seen one guy posting in a comment section on all new posts promotion of his post and said to him: "That although his post is good, it is not nice to spam on others content without contributing, because I saw he wasn't reading them". He replied that he is desperate, he injured his foot on work and is now on minimal wage and that he will do anything to get noticed. His post earned about 150 votes but landed 50$ (post was concerning whales who should start voting on content better else their baby will die). Idk if he is still here and I hope he didn't give up. I hate that for the time being good post is good for let's say 24h. That makes people spam new content a lot. He after few hours went to write another one and wasn't a part of a discussion on old one (you do a bit of the same thing also, but almost all of us do the same because system works that way).
To get back to the first point of how you should do what you think is right and the prize will come. I have read a post here about a Law of reversed effort by @fishborne it talks psychologically on that matter so read it if u like.
https://steemit.com/psychology/@fishborne/the-law-of-reversed-effort-the-harder-you-try-the-less-likely-you-are-to-succeed
One thing that is also important is to hear what others are saying and not only promote our ideas. That is what I do here and why I ​do things like this promotion of someone else's post that is 2 or 3 weeks old. It won't make me or him rich but will make this better place.