It's such important advice to minnows not to resteem. So many of us, especially when we're new, believe that if we resteem a post, our gesture will be rewarded by the author. It won't. Most of the time, the author doesn't even know. You'll almost never get a Steemian's attention by resteeming their work. But you do have a shot of gaining their attention by talking to them in their own comment threads. I've found, too, that the people I really want to know better on Steemit are already pretty busy and engaged, so it takes a minimum of a month of interacting with them for any real relationship to develop.