I totally relate. I take a humourous view on how badly things do, because otherwise you'd cry wouldn't you! But yes, this morning, I checked my stats on the piece that failed to get boosted and I had 9 reads, one comment and 24 cents in earnings. Arghhhhh! My high hopes have been dashed. So I've written a story about Medium, which will probably do better and put a link to the war story at the bottom! It's bonkers! A moderate rise for nominated stories, above the category of 'turd' would be nice.