This has been said so many times, still though, you should know that steemit is at first a blogging platform, that relies heavily on the community aspect.

YOu say they vote within a circle, yes i agree, but that circle is far bigger than you realise, whales and dolphins go out of their way to look for good posts every day, curation accounts have been set up to help bring good posts to light.

The main problem you should be talking about, is how visibility of posts can be achieved.

With over 300k people currently in steemit, its going to be difficult, whether you like it or not, to see posts.

like a real life ocean, a whale may go a year without visiting a particular minnow.

All you can do, is interacting the community alot, write good posts and generally be a good fellow, youre still new by steemit standards, just over 2 months old. Iv been here 6 now, and things just started going well.