I've just recently joined myself and can understand what you're feeling. There's a lot that can be improved that I can see just in my short time here. One of them, I feel, is the lack of notification services of interractions from people upvoting, resteeming, following you etc. The visibility of this, or lack there of, can sometimes make it hard to see people's interractions.
I hope with a little bit of patience people will find my posts, follow me, and then support my contributions. I'll do the same with you, invisi-buddies on Steemit! :-) glad to see I'm not the only one.