That follow for follow stuff is exactly why so many have thousands of followers, 10 votes and 12 views. I'm nearing 2000 followers. I never see 2000 votes or views. You want FANS, true fans of your work. You want to give them a reason to show up to the blog and read. You can't do that with shit posts 12 times in a day because nobody has that much time to focus on only one person. I follow 500. Many don't post, eventually I'll have to remove them. ...and yes, coming here to comment makes it a lot easier for me to head your way, but at the same time, I can't be everywhere at once.
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There even a worse trend I have been noticing. I call them serial community joiners. At the bottom of their blog they have 5, or god knows how many footer/banners stating all the communities they are in. Most of the time its longer then what ever there content was which is both sad and funny at the same time.
Then you look at their upvotes and they are under $1 total only getting bot upvotes with 2 views on their blog.
They just can’t invest any time into a single community so they get zero rewards and might as well just leave them all and start over.
I suggested long ago: Those with the long signatures should simply write an "About the author" post and link that down at the bottom with a much smaller signature. Then they can fill up that post with as much spam and bullshit as they want. Nobody is reading it, they're trained to scroll past. Anything new gets overlooked... totally pointless. They could also copy/paste their junk into the first comment under each post. Whatever though... it's like talking to a wall.
So many look for that easy road. The shortcut. They don't read the fine print, they just see $$$. Then they find out their tricks and exploits didn't work, they blame Steemit... and quit. I've seen that numerous times.
That’s true!
What do I do then?
I think this should be Type#11
Do I unfollow all I follow, if I do that everyone will unfollow me because I unfallow them. And then I will end up with minus 1500 followers. My goal on first day on steemit was to follow as Manny as I can, so I did.
Oh BTW, I have to go to resteem the one I follow, but I will come back if I’m still welcomed here.
In my first week or two on Steemit I followed a few hundred people and I had to take steps to reduce that.
Make a list of people you enjoy reading their content of and those who you enjoy engaging with. Those are the people who you should follow. If you are not sure then invest some time (in your case a lot of time) checking up on each person you are following and asking yourself “am in interested in following this person content and interacting with them?” If no unfollow!
After that try and find someone who does curation here on Steemit. They resteem the best of what they read a few times a day to your feed. This helps you find wonderful new people when you don’t have time to go out and find them yourself. You tend to just randomly run into one of these yourself or hey they leave you a comment letting you know!
While you do have 329 people following you if they unfollow because you did they had 0 and I mean 0 impacts on you. They are just unfollowing and following for follows. They don’t’ care about you. You were only a number to them.
This is great advice. Not the reason I'm responding though, this is the reason I'm responding: (in your case a lot of time) I think I may have..mmm, nope, dry, but close... ;)
I’ve noticed quite a number of amazing people have an interesting follow ratio.
After a certain point people just seem to give up on maintaining and having any control over it. Which is understandable I use to spend every weekend trying to catch back up on every person I was following. That was a weekend afternoon hehe.
I’m just blessed I follow enough to keep my feed interesting and flowing but not to many it turns into a circus with lots of room to spare.
Hey @milano1113. Nobody is kicking you out.
I said that part too.
Thank you!
RESTEEMED!
Anyway, I think we sort this one out.