It's true that some good, quality posts by newbies can get buried. There are so many steemians working on here.

• Tags are VERY important ( I will make this my contribution post next week for Dave) but in the mean time make sure to tag properly. If you are writing a post about how to make an omelette- tag the post with food, recipe, howto and maybe foodchallenge and foodphotography
• Getting people to reply and carry on a conversation can be difficult in the beginning. I suggest leaving some open-ended questions for the people to reply to. And always answer comments whether on your own post or if you had commented to someone else and they replied to you- carry on a conversation. This shows the stemians that you are serious about the platform.