No problem. I try to go through the introduceyourself tag every so often and if I see someone who seems like they can write, I will try to tell them something more useful than "welcome" or whatever. There is a lot of spam and people looking to get their follower count up.

The big thing is to stick with it over time. It takes a little while before most people make anything to speak of here so it is easy to get disappointed. If you write quality stuff you will get noticed. If you want more exposure early on, you can use resteem bots but that is a gamble and you may take a loss on that post but you will likely pick up more followers as a result. Networking works best but it is time consuming.

It is okay to post from the start but a post may take a couple of hours to write but you can say something cleaver in a few words and make almost as much on a comment.

The other thing that might be helpful is don't judge your progress against the things that you see on the trending page because most of those people use bid bots for high value upvotes. They may have a $500 payout but they spent $485 to get it.