That larger number of visitors were mostly people who dropped a link and left, looking for other places to drop a link.
Ouch!! that was totally me... I support your final decision, I always thought #post-promotion pages are just luck based anyway.
Since I'm already here I'll mention two stories I read, one by a good author "The Hive" and the other seems beginner and wish it was written better, but I liked the story Superhero Strength.
Well, I've done it too. I still drop off a link at the Steemitchat post promotion site. And SteemTrail now has a post-promotion channel. There's nothing wrong with that, it just didn't work the way I hoped it would work, to develop a discussion forum.