"Why am I not getting upvotes for my well-written posts that took me hours to research and construct?"

I started out doing those long posts and soon realized is was not worth my effort as a small fish here. Now instead I:

• post 2-4 times a day - most of those are short posts - a few a week are longer and take more time. I break long posts up when I can.
• post many contest entries a week in replies and comments as asked.
• spend much more time interacting on other people's posts than posting my own
• join discord groups in my niches that give votes.
• post on platforms that give votes, such as esteem, ulogs, and busy.
• Use steemdunk to autovote people I care about and thank God for the people who do that for me too.
• Use kyrptonia, qurator, feedyourminnows and sbi among some others to get daily votes on my posts.

My motivations are:

• helping fat people lose weight naturally like I did.
• paying the rent so I can continue with the above.

Everything I do an all social media is in support of those two goals.