You are absolutely on point, I'm currently chatting with a newbie that quitted. Reason: no upvotes. I checked the posts made so far and I found 8 posts with 13 comments from him and he hasn't upvoted anyone. I told him maybe people that read his posts are just like him. They post and disappear and expect ghosts to upvote their posts. Also the impatience is something that should be worked on. Happy steeming.