Very good post and interesting to note

I'm not really excited about having plenty followers because most of then are just dormant. I prefer to have few active ones.

>What I wanted to highlight in this post though, and why users should not care a lot about the amount of followers they have is that on Steem it doesn't matter a lot. 

Agreed. I have +3000 followers and barely reach 30 upvotes or so on my articles usually :-D hahaha

Speaking of connections, @acidyo, wanted to speak to you about a way to manage more efficiently next year Fantasy Premier League (not that it was bad, on the contrary! but a way to save time probably for you). Let's speak on Discord when you want.

I agree with your opinion @acidyo
I also never asked people to follow me.

Due to your honesty you can go up a lot!! @acidyo

Back in the day I usually never even gave stars(omg so old) to YouTube videos, I only started giving likes on the platform when YouTubers started almost begging for them around 2012 when YouTube switched to their new algorithm...

Regarding follower counts, yeah I have to agree they really don't have that much weight because I have around 500 but you never get that sort of engagement anyways, I only get upvotes and comments from a few of my followers and a few extra people that happen to run by my posts.

I think steem works better if instead of focusing on big follower numbers you go ahead and become part of communities and create relationships with people, I rather have 5 friends than 5000 followers 😍

Postingan yang sangat indah, terima kasih.

I agree with you about the importance of followers..or should I say unimportance.

Too many make a big deal about getting a large number of followers.  I find of the 4300 that I have, very few are regular reader/commenting on my content.  I imagine the vast percentage of them are not even on STEEM anymore.

I played the following game at one point and my feed was a mess.  It was too much when I was following over 1000 people.  I now keep it at 400 which is manageable but could use even more culling.

I think the communities upgrade will alter things greatly.  My view is there is going to be the establishment of interaction based upon likes.  Then we will see people interacting with each other on a much more personal level.

I do not even pay attention to the number of followers one has.  For example, I could not tell you whether you have 500 or 50,000 followers...I didnt even pay attention so I have no clue.  There are other metrics like reputation although that can be gamed too.

So I just look at the quality of the posts and if it interests me, I click on it.

Totally agree with this:
"What I wanted to highlight in this post though, and why users should not care a lot about the amount of followers they have is that on Steem it doesn't matter a lot. An account can have a lot of followers that are not active anymore or don't curate their feed ever."

Very inspiring & insightful post, dear @acidyo...❤
Thanks for sharing...Have a great day...☕🤗😍

Yes, It does not matter. Of my 2700 or so followers only about 20-30 are active followers. But these 20-30 are such awesome people that they are all that matters. Always contributing great value and friendship. 

I do however think that a lot of people is trying to be super active in comment fields in order to attract a whale - not necesarilly a lot of followers. One whale is for many more important than 1000 plankton. There is no hiding the fact that many are looking for that instead of nescesarilly (?? nope..wrong again..hope I never get that word in a spelling bee contest) friendship and community..and of course that is often where they make their mistake. 

For most people though you will have to settle with community and discussion and not 5 super whales upvoting your every shitty comment and blog post. There are so many things against you. Blog about wrong stuff  - no one is gonna risk upvoting you - at least not whales that are friends with other whales who might be politically correct etc. Blog too much and they will remove you from auto upvote. Blog to little and the same happens and so on and so forth.

So I think the best tactic here is to be true..if you are a white identitarian or a snowflake SJW..just be that and enjoy discussion and community. Don't think so much about earning. It will come..or not. Ultimately there are only three things that are required to earn money here:

1. Go in with a lot of money
2. Know whales
3. Contribute with great content over time and hope for the best

Only number 2 is guaranteed to give you significant earnings from blogposts.

I wonder which followers are bots and/or government agencies.

Asking for follows feels gross but then I’m not trying to make this my job. Perhaps I’d feel differently if I was. 

Also, regarding the memo spam & pricing - is there a real need for the 3rd decimal?

Followers are a great thing when the number gets closer to success
A great article that is really great and well published

This is so good. I love the way you have elucidated the unimportance of many followers on the steem blockchain. I often wonder why people beg to have followers because almost all these followers do not even check your blog or even if your post appears on their feeds,  they give it little or no attention at all. 
> An account can have a lot of followers that are not active anymore or don't curate their feed ever. An account can have a lot of followers that have barely any stake or influence

I am even not a fan of most post promotion platforms because at the end,  it is an almost insignificant reward you get from it. Actually, for a user with so much influence (in terms of large steem power), it is easier to get many followers without asking of begging for them. The challenge is really with newbies and minnows to be able to keep that level of sanity by allowing followers to come naturally.

Likewise I don't usually ask, let alone follow or upvote, after every time I watch my new subscribers are either bots every time I launch a stream or people I've welcomed to steemit . Very few new follow are already present since a while on the platform, maybe because Dlive is still new and that very few likes to see streams anyway I do not find the number of follow important especially that it is totally distorted with the bots, it is the constant viewers the most important ;) 

I was actually thinking about this last night... i'm almost to the 3k point and i've been doing a thank you at the milestones... but WHY?!     I have a *VERY* small group of people that ACTUALLY look at my post despite the almost 3000 'people' that have hit that follow button!     I have an average of 20-25 upvotes on my of my posts lately.... so my question is where are the rest of the 2970+ people at????      Its just a number... i noticed yesterday within seconds of making a post I had 4 new followers (thanks @ginabot) but did they engage?  No... i have about 10 people that actually comment actively... and i appreciate every one of those genuine REAL people out there interested in what I do!

I am quite a newbie because happens to be my 100th day on steemit. I haven't done a lot of things to gain followers because only those who follows you with genuine intention will always look out for your post and drop a valid comment but  am guilty of one thing, which is upvoting my comments to the top to get attention when I drop a comment that adds value or requires response but never for once have I upvoted my own post, even if I do, 0.001 won't change so prefer giving it out.

The numbers of followers doesn't mean that individual is important because I have seen a lot upvote bot accounts with huge amount of followers but yet one has to pay to get resteem by them.

I have always wanted to know.

**How can one gets to join ocd? And
Do people who doesn't use the ocd or ocd-resteem gets curated?**

Thanks for your time

i used to think that followers were important metric in this platform because like reputation it is displayed prominently on your profile. 

In the 6 months that i have been here and over 8k combined comments and posts that I have done I have gotten 

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdVYt78gEia2aT4pWsaJK9ssTWEaEGokrQrU1xxPk9Ki3/image.png)

This data is from a nifty tool by Sircork called https://steem.agency

as you can see more than a quarter are considered dead followers 

I have to agree with you that the quality of your followers are more important. The followers that you have converted as engagers because they comment on your posts, resteem at times and maybe upvote as well from time to time. 

It is when you find like minded people that it increases your stake to stay in the platform. 

I have always admired what you have done with OCD together with Eric and Futurethinker and are some of the good initiatives that will keep people in the platform. 

I really wish that Hive and Community will really help turn things around.

im not manipulating things either... not sure its going so well :(

Hello sir @acidyo , every one of your followers is your inspiration and I think the most important person in this committee, you and every one of your followers loves you very much, and honors you very much for every minute of your life, and you are a respected person for the community.

I respect you.

I really agree with you on this follower thing and the followers here do not help at all..accept for self esteem hahaha.
> An account can have a lot of followers that are not active anymore or don't curate their feed ever. An account can have a lot of followers that have barely any stake or influence

I have over 1200 followers and some people envy me! There was tool i used recently and i was shocked when it showed me that i have 64 followers out of the 1200....The 64 are the ones who comment,upvote and reply to my posts.....only 64 out of 1200.

>To this day I have never asked anyone to follow me, I never end my posts with "follow and upvote", etc
I have to agree that am guilty of this above and i am stopping it right way.I always include "upvote and resteem!"....its ended now on my last post.

I now strive to make relationships with influential people as i wrote in my post yesterday.It is the relationships we make that matter...and i hope to meet influential followers along the way!

Thanx for Share your Opinion  i really i really impressed your nice post 
Thank you very  much