With your frankly baffling account settings your posts do not appear in the Activity feed which I monitor.
This means that if you do not use quoted replies then I do not get a notification that you have posted.
It is akin to whispering for help.
Because your results are the same now as before I would question that you are booting from the config.plist that you think you are. An easy way to check is to toggle the verbose mode on or off in your config.plist, boot from it and see if the mode changes.