This is actually very true. I started posting here because I saw post with hundreds of dollars. I personally did not come in thinking I'd be making hundreds in days. Because I have a blog and I'm a YouTuber and it's been a very hard labor getting my subscribers to where I have them now. So it does take hard work to get where you want to be with any follower based site.
Plus even when I'm a very new guy here, (a litter over a week). I do not follow people if I don't like their content and I don't ask people to follow me when I comment their post ( I do ask for a follow at the end of my own posts). Because I want people to follow me because thy like my content.
I do agree with you and the do's and don'ts are great you should write a "Best practices" article.
I left a long comment on your post please follow m- Hahaha just kidding. Nice post. Keep steeming.
Nice reply! Exactly Rome wasn't built in a day