What kills me is that, you wrote such a long post with valuable information for newcomers yet your post stands at 0.44. Things like this made me start Tpot but things certainly didn't work the way they were supposed to.
Anyway, we are moving forward.
Just to clear one thing in your post, we do not have any requirements for tag or mention. Anyone is free to use the #post-promotion bot. If you can, kindly get in touch with me on discord. Upvoted.
Yes sometimes posts don't work out the way you expect them too. And then posts that you don't worry about suddenly do well. You never know. Lol