I have also noticed that everyone wants to promote their own posts and want people to read them but, they don't want to read and upvote others content.
This is there YouTube creators coming over fail. They churn out links to there YouTube videos but never engage. And eventually leave again. Because that is not the way Steemit works.
Also read my Article on SPAM followers
Thank you. I hope as a community we will be able to clean some things up within steemit.