All I hear is the loud sucking sound of multiple accounts draining the reward pool. I had my reasons for pulling back, and that hasn't changed.
This platform sometimes defies understanding. When I stopped, I had around 270 followers. Now I have 361. I've done nothing but comment on things here and there - that's it.
Is it bots? Some odd algorithm glomming on to my post history and auto-following out of some inherent directive? I may never know.
I don't depend on Steem, my main thing is trading crypto - and I do that daily, but its really weird to me how things ebb and flow here, and I don't think its all human.
Bleep-bloop, hello all you robots.
I have noticed the same thing. I have 180 followers and I am sure that 60-80% of them are bots or just people who are trying to get a follow back.