I read your post and after I did I went to your wallet to find out that all those followes actually mean nothing. Because you still using your amount of delegated Steem power which you got from steemit. Your account value is a shocking (sorry for the sarcasm) amount of $9.70 and you earned about $ 0.70 ...
I was a follower for follower too when I joined in June 2017. And I was inactive after a start of 2 weeks. Came back somewhere in December to instantly feel annoyed by all those people I followed without even knowing what they write about.
Time for a big cleanup! I now only follow those that post about things Im interested in.. And my group followers grows every day, and this is not because I follow for follow.. I never do. If I like your style, you will catch my attention as I click on the new followers group daily .
Your strategy is meaningless here. Better to focus on writing good content, and leave meaningful comments at the posts from people that you want the attention from.
Of course it's up to you if you continue your strategy, but I guess more people will advice you to change..
Doing almost nothing will not make you grow here on Steemit.. Steemit whales love quality content, not lazy people, just saying..
Good luck ;)
I experience it too! haha! I follow my followers before but that is useless! Everytime I look on my feeds i saw a lot of post that is not in my interest... your right I follow an unknown people and My feeds become useless... And after I cleaned my followed steemians my feeds come back to life... I am a graphic designer that looking for an art & design contest...
Well I did say that more followers doesn't mean more rewards on your posts and this can help you a little if you write a post and then run a script to promote your post for free.I know it won't make you rich, but on my '1000 followers reached' I saw that many people found impressive that I reached 1000 followers so fast and I saw opportunity to write a post about it and test buying upvotes on https://steembottracker.com, so if I found it profitable, I can scale it up.
As of writing good content I have to disagree, unless you promote it, you won't earn anything on your post. You can invest in your account or you can leave comments on posts from the people you want attention from, but I don't have time to research all the ways you can make money on Steemit as I would like as I have exams right now, and I am not type of person to try to cath someone's attention.
I am just testing Steemit right now and maybe if I conclude that I can make some money on each post that is worth my time I will invest some real money in it but I think that, as I am developer, I will probably make a bot and put some money in it or look for some other passive way to earn money, as I have more important things to focus now, and if I do I invest in Steemit I will all the money I earn with it invest in a project that I am currently working on it.
My account value $9.70 because I invested money that I had in account on this post, it is actually ~26$ it's still small hahaha, but because I am just testing it and haven't invested any meaningful amount in my account, as I said.
Anyways, thanks for the comment and if you want to clean up your feed you can edit and use this script https://steemit.com/steemit/@emirk/automatically-unfollow-non-followers-on-steemit-script
Happy steeming :)