I think the steemit community is the one that is really unfair sometimes. They never read other people's posts, sometimes they just read and pass. It takes so little to upvote and leave a comment, but people don't. There is a lot going on that we do not know about, maybe if we would care about other people's initiatives we would make steemit a good rewarding platform. I have never received $2 on my posts ever since February 2017