You are not alone in feeling this way bitrocker... I'm right there with you. Your point that it's hard to distinguish real people from bots when they act this way is SO TRUE.
I also find that it just doesn't make sense for me to "follow back" a lot of the time... I only want to follow authors that post content I'm interested in. It doesn't help anybody if I follow somebody and then they are posting about, IDK, parenting or kayaking or some other thing that does not apply to me. The same way they shouldn't follow me if they don't like weird music and technology rants, lol.
Nice post, cheers.
lol ... thats true man .... we see it so much especially when curating. at times it really seemed like the spambots from other social media sites has packed their bags and moved onto steemit. good thing for people like @steemcleaners and @cheetah ... without these guys steemit would have been doomed before it even got started.