Hello @ablaze and @samsmith1971 😊 I consider myself still a newbie around here, but if I think in my beggining, mine was a rare ocurrence 😆... I made a good first impression at the time and even my following posts exceeded my expectation in the way they were received.

I actually met you both on my intro post 😍!

Although there's been almost 6 month since I joined, so far I have had 5 posts making less than 2,5$, 2 less than 1$... I admit one of them is my worst quality post so I think I didn't even deserved that much. But the others I still did put a good amount of effort. I understand how frustranting can be, however I have never had a long period like this so I don't know how that feels, although I can understand the disheartening.

About DreemPort it can really be a cool way to get more people to read and maybe upvote your or even newbies posts! You also get to curate other people's posts so it's a good way to making connections. As for my experience I can say I gained quite a few friends and regular upvoters for my content 😊 It's super easy and you can even gain DREEM tokens 😁

Lastly I agree with @samsmith1971, I really love engagement and just the fact to get some regular people to comment and connecting with me, even if my posts doesn't make a lot of rewards, is encouraging to me 🤗.

P.S: I only realized now the community you posted ahahaha Rant and complaning seems like an easy thing to do 😂😂😂 And very relieving, so get it all out @ablaze! We are here for you 🤗