Are you chatting and networking with other xtian steemians?

Are you chatting and networking with xtian steemians interested in bitcoin?

Are you posting your steemit articles on other social media, online church groups, etc?

Are you positioning yourself as the crypto-xtian on steemit?

How much exposure and visitors do you expect to get when you have 125 followers? i.e., what percentage of those 125 do you think even saw your post?

Steemit is like any social media....it takes time and effort and some creativity to become successful. Being an early investor or a rich late investor never hurt anything.

Sure the whales vote for each other. There's reasons for that. One can complain about it or get to work with a positive attitude and an eye for success (instead of a complain vs. sucess).

As far as the bots, as far as I can tell, one doesn't make much from paying for bot votes....but somebody clever put time and effort into those bots and THEY are making money.

You wrote a good article. Good on you. But that doesn't magically = success. More articles, more networking, more creativity, more connections, more visibility, more outreach.

Lots of folks get to steemit and get discouraged. I understand...it takes something to stick with it and to succeed. Not everbody has that something.