Hello @theaverageman and welcome to Steemit. I came into your blog because an upvote you gave to me. I recomend you to visit @rohosanz blog to read about steemit. He have a lot of guides about Steemit in both English and Spanish.
Watching your account in https://steemblockexplorer.com/@theaverageman
I saw you voted a coment of mine more than seven days ago and you are in 30% voting power.
You should vote with more voting power to give value to your votes. It regenerates about 1 vote every 2.4 hours. With 30% voting power your vote worth less than 1/3 than if you vote with 100%.
Also the rewards come 7 days after you wrote the post and after that it means just reputation but no rewards.
I hope you the best as I see you are an active user reading, comenting and voting a lot. That are the users that give value to our comunity.