You found a real gap, and thank you for writing it up.

Your rewards are not lost. They are waiting to be claimed: 191.763 MELEK Power right now. On MELEK, author and curation rewards sit in a "to be claimed" balance until you redeem them, and until then they add nothing to your MELEK Power. Your own MELEK Power is still 0, which is why each vote carries so little weight and earns so little.

To fix it: sign in to your wallet and choose Redeem Rewards on the Balances tab. Everything moves into your MELEK Power at once, and your votes start to count.

Two things changed today because of your post: every wallet with waiting rewards now says so at the top, and there is an Auto-claim option in the wallet's Automation tab (through Auto-Vote) that claims for you every six hours. More on how rewards work: Post Rewards on MELEK.