I tried to put some "stories" about Steemit, and even the same as that critical loads and almost 40 votes in favor, 6 hours will not make more than 70 cts.
Why? Because the Steemit economy is based solely on the whales to vote if a whale (a major user with much power estimates) do not vote, your message will do nothing to change, or at best, with 1 or 2 dollars. And so I think you will need 50 to 100 votes of ordinary users.
What does that mean ? If you post on a topic that does not like large users, who are mostly nerds geek cryptomaniacs technology, it will not be rewarded at all. Of course, they are rewarding a lot of messages of "useless" for the platform to go, because without them, not even to make a dollar out of their positions.
What to do ? Post in cryptocurrencies and nerdy things, or things emotional message, dautgher photos of her in his arms, logos SteemIt parts and a beautiful story about how it will change your life. This is the only way to get a vote of whales and win something here today.
Of course, there are exceptions and some useful messages are also being rewarded, but think about it, how many large whales are on this site? Not so, how many new messages per day? Many more each day, will not be able to see everyone and soon even as normally appeal the whale vote will not be of interest apart from ordinary users feedback nothing.