I hear what you are saying here and see the problem. I haven't been on here long and resisted vote for vote requests for the most part (agreed to one or two while trying to figure out how to navigate this site). While I do hope to make money on this site to allow myself more opportunity to invest in blockchain projects I believe in, I am primarily interested in trying to get people involved in a conversation on here about the direction I see the cryptocurrency world going. I even offered to pay 1SBD for the best counterargument to my post, with no requirements to upvote, resteem or follow, but I am struggling to get people engaged. I'm guessing this is at least in part because I don't have many followers and the low number of votes on my post keep it low on the page of each of the tag lists. So how do we get people involved without artificially bumping up ratings (vote for vote) or spamming? Or is it just the case that you have to be actively posting, and interacting with others posts for many months or years before you can reach people?
Upvoted and following.