I've been following you and I truly enjoy your article. I'm glad that more comments and upvotes motivate you to contribute more. When I post in reddit, I'm glad that people read it and engage discussion with about about the post. Via those discussion, I gain more knowledge and insight about the topic. It's sad that Steem become toxic as people downvoting for no reason (Well I downvote if the post in wrong category) and a lot of complain post regarding whale voting each other topic their post on top. Initially I thought of that also until one of the Steem user explain to me. My suggestion to you, screw the naysayers and downvoters  (Unless you got downvoted due to posting in wrong category). Haters will hate. Keep writing and contributing to this community. There's a lot of good people out here looking forward to gain new knowledge and insight. N I'm one of fan of your writings and always looking forward to your post and engage with your on more fruitful discussion.