I think many people are following for the sake of a return follow. Yesterday i was very happy as i reached 100 followers at last, so put out a post. Guess how many views and upvotes i got? 4 views and 3 upvotes of which 1 was from myself, 1 from someone who's not my follower, and 1 from steemit board of honour as i just achieved an award. So thats zero response from my followers. 😥
I don't do this "return follow" thing as it dirties up my feed. I do follow but only things I'm interested in. I'm here for knowledge and community. When I go to my feed I want to learn about things I'm interested in to begin with not scroll through a bunch of crap.