I'm not sure how it could have been advertised more? This thread has 108 pages and 38,400 page views. Short of taking out a paid advertisement somewhere, what can you do?
I haven't been too active here lately, but if that reddit post had been made 24 hours earlier, I'd have burned a BTC or two. The original announcement post on reddit 28 days ago got just 14 upvotes and must have been buried in the flurry of altcoin posts, which is why no one saw it.