Don't forget that steemit is becoming big in users. Timing and reputable names go far right now. You might've just been unlucky and no one with a lot of voting power happened to read your post and vote for it. It usually takes one big one to get the ball rolling nowadays, in the future it will be more balanced. :)

I had my share of bug reports with the exact same thing: unnoticed.
Even tried to pull a stunt to get it noticed but still not gotten traction.

Original:https://steemit.com/bug/@anduweb/steemit-bug-clicking-edit-to-modify-a-long-post-now-logs-me-out-every-time-i-go-to-the-post-page

2nd try: https://steemit.com/bug/@anduweb/everyone-please-help-get-traction-with-this-steemit-bug-who-know-what-s-wrong-and-needs-fixing

Failed Stunt: https://steemit.com/bug/@anduweb/bouncy-boobs-and-a-steemit-bug-reported-that-received-5-votes-bug

There should be a more organized way to report bugs...

Would it be because the specificity of your initial posts makes them of limited interest (outside of the dev community) whereas the more generic "Make sure you stay safe people" posts have a global appeal? 

Audience relevance and context drive upvotes?

Just a thought.

Totally agree and I hope this post vindicates you. Well done.

Being that I see 7k, guessing issue resolved.

You cant control what people do. just keep posting your very insigtful messages and they will get votes.

Good points, contact me on Slack and I'll give you my full analysis as to why this happened and how to avoid it in the future.

We need people like you, so please don't be put off by this and at least this one has been properly rewarded :-)

*CG*

The problem is the user interface. Steem is still too new and disorganized. It's hard to find relevant posts without looking for them for an unreasonable amount of time. Better UI, more features such as follow, or subscribe, can help.

Also the sections which used to be clean and organized are now filled with spam unrelated to the topic. Just look at the basic income topic for example.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@decryptson/in-wake-of-steemit-hack-important

Haha. You think that is weird ? What is weird to me is how makeup tutorials are becoming the most rewarded posts of steemit. I am waiting for a makeup tutorial for babies to get blast the $50.000 point :-)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oo3d0-AHto8/VuOi3tyEc8I/AAAAAAAAALs/Wf2acGdVQiYoqt1xeExz6RZvxmwjNR2Ow/s320/friends1.7.gif

i guess  only when  the users get it on to panic they start care for security issue   i mean  because after all is you account is on   risk so we have to take some measure .

It is like fishing.   You can't expect to get a bite.   Just do your thing and be thankful when one does take a bite.   It looks like THIS post of yours is bringing in a good haul.

There are a lot of good posts that don't get votes or good payouts.   I think a lot of it is timing, and whether your post happened to be of interest to anyone with decent steem power at a given time.   I'd expect this to spread out more as MORE people get significant steem power as that will broaden the interests.    Yet it is still possible even then for a good post to fail.   Sunday night was pretty SLOW for everyone.

Seems like you made a valid point here! :P

Well, there you go. I wrote useful informations and didn't receive anything for it, with just a  complaint you received what you should have received before, so enjoy

The thing is that 80% of the users are not tech savvy and they don't get the most part of steem power,SD, ETC. they are either here for a quick buck, or for fun. But we have seen cases where making fool of yourself can bring thousands of dollars. And that's just sick.:))

This is something that we all think is unfair right now on steem. We need a way to show an assortment of steem posts on the top not just the same posts that are trending. I believe that they need to alternate on trending high post with one trending low post on their list and then rotate through them so that people are seeing a more real representation of what people are posting and not just a very small percentage that have gotten attention and climbed. 

Plus I see many votes for some posts with low income and some post with high income with low votes this means the power of the Steem Power can be used to hype some posts more giving those who have a lot of stem power also the power to choose which posts actually get more attention which isn't necessarily fair to the representation of the greater collective.  This makes a decentralized voting system centralized to those who have more Steem Power. This curve may adjust more fairly over time but for now not sure.

Inspired to write up https://steemit.com/steemit/@hobbitjerry/steemit-rewards-fair-or-biased

I think it is biased. on the way to unbiased.

I thought your post was great and I upvoted it.  I do make it a point to look through new submissions every day and keep looking until past the point where I get bored.  So I was able to see your post by coincidence.

I think the key to getting spotted at the moment is a combination of content and marketing.

You have to be able to catch readers attention in the brief time that your post is at the top of the "new" listings.  If you miss that opportunity then you are destined to get overlooked.

Currently the marketing portion of it seems to be to include some sexual innuendo or something to grab attention.  Or a really exciting title.

At some point in the future I would hope to see the site divided up by broad categories, each of which would feature a "new" filter so that people looking for content can focus on and search for content relevant to their interests.  And at the same time these "new" postings would not scroll out of existence before a larger portion of the interested members get a chance to look at them.

The struggle is real, my friend... uh, never mind.  I just saw how much a rant post about "how a previous post made such little money" can make.  lol

Not all people understand security issues but people like to see other people's bad life (make them feel lucky) , or people try to work their way up (inspiration), or happy beautiful things (just peace in mind). You can see the trend here is emotion over brain thinking. We are human :)

I even promoted that post (by you), but deleted it because it received no responses and a flag. I have tons of worthless original content on my blog. Im ready to retire this place to the BOTS - since everyone is apparently apathetic to the damage they do here.

You sir have my upvote. Enjoying the conversation in the comment section as well.

I feel its important to experiment, I've shared extremely personal details about my life and got less than 100.00 But there are times when I share extremely short bursts of almost "venting" and I make a few hundred. I started here for the money, BUt now I am here for the community and for sharing, Maybe you need to focus on having more fun! This post did really well.

ok- just start at New and go from there - but thanks for the article

A good way to support actual posts. The principle of "Pay It Forward". How it can work for Steemit? - https://steemit.com/payitforward/@lehard/pay-it-forward-i-ll-pay-50usd-to-three-people-for-your-undervalued-posts

We live in a society with strange values, with this crap of politically correct taking over the correct values of things...