I totally get following your followers or mutually following someone you meet or you say hey I followed to as a nudge towards friendship. What I seen though is a case of people asking for a follow but dip off your list, I rather keep my feed clean for those that support me so I cleaned it up a bit so I can compare the numbers of FOLLOWERS and FOLLOWING so I don't waste up my feed with less active users not really being apart of things. I also run Steemit Blogger Central on FB, Twiter, and we just opened a SLACK so community memebers can share posts in that chat area. I RESTEEM all the time and it be way easier for me to just randomly help my followers list and be more beneficial to know they are with me here lol. Hate to help someone and neglect those truly involved here more. Its all in personal preference though, its kind of messy still on Steemit to weed out what you want in content so you have to kind of keep a clean house. I figure a follow for follow mentality for now might keep it cleaner, I boomed a lot in a month and its getting hard to find my followers stuff in my feed, can go in my list but I am lazy lol.
Great article by the way, we need features like that actually, some private messenger services would be nice too.
I clicked on your profile to check more after making my comment and realized you have 641 followers..that's like 8 times the number I have, so at least that amount more noise :) and probably gets you dizzy when you go through your list to find the follower you want to check up on.. lolll Can't even begin to fathom what kind of noise the users with thousands and thousands of followers face!!
Interesting that you run Steemit Blogger Central. What is a SLACK, may I ask?
I had about a 1000 I was following on top of that, mainly from guys saying that wanted a follow for a follow but disappear a week later off my list, its a tactic I guess some use here to get the numbers up lol. Trust me I had a hard time knowing who was who in my feeds for a bit, why I cleaned house some.
The Slack is a chat room basically, a lot of crypto coins use them so I added that as an extension to our FB, and Twitter for Steemit Blogger Central. I share the posts users share with others in the SLACK on our pages and they meet and chat with each other making new friends and followers, kind of a way for people to chat, and form connections in real time vs just comments here. We don't have a ton of people in there right now but a very good core group and growing.
The follow for a follow leaves a really bad taste in my mouth actually. It's not genuine at all and those that disappear later on really are just making use of you..nobody likes to be made use of. sheesh...
Ahhh I see, cool initiative! I have to turn in now..brain is fuzzy..will check it out on FB tomorrow. :) Anw, I checked out your profile briefly and one of your posts, and I like what I've read so far (it's only one, plus this one, that equals 2)..so yes, you've got a new follower :)
Really great to meet you, I will add you as well. Hopefully you like the others when you find time to read them, I try to mix it up a bit, not all about crypto here lol. You have you a great night and sleep well. Here anytime you would like to chat. Glad to earn your follow, I promise I am active and don't hide out much lol
Thanks, I can see that you are living your word of posting everyday. Cool that you are so active, but it may take longer for me to catch up on your profile at this rate!! :) I'm also fairly active (at least so far, took a break yesterday).
lol...I know I kind of keep coming up with new stuff ever few hours a day lol. Just kind of trying to fight my way in this for a bit, vacation will come soon I hope. lol
hehe it's cool that you're so driven! I'll keep an eye out for your posts!
If you will add me I will add you back lol...I don't mind adding people just wanna add those that plan to be around now and then....keep the page clean but your welcome to join us here, there is a great group of people under my following list