I am with you on this bro, one has to have a never say die attitude to remain on Steemit in the light of little or no upvote. A reputable Steemian suggests newbies should focus on building real relationships alongside the hardwork to make it. What scares me though is the amount of bots, I have seen individuals exploiting this by promoting farcical blogs to the hot/trending page. May be putting some form of regulations guiding the use of bots would not be out of place.