@jerrybanfield I am glad that I followed you and I have watched one, so far, of your You Tube videos. Thank you for all the effort that you put into this particular post. I have been on Steemit for a week now and I am fascinated by the sheer number of quality posts.

On Google+, there are not many other than me who would consistently write original material. I mainly comment and + posts now.

Yes; there is a psychology and habit structure for the genre of people who are serious on Steemit. It is quite different than those who camp out on Face Palm.

It can definitely be discouraging that a post which had four hours of effort poured into it does not even yield one reader (cannot very well have comments and upvotes if nobody reads it). However, I remind myself that those of us who have branded ourselves that the content that we create finds its way into search engines. If it is germane to our brand then upvotes are a mere bonus.