Follow begging is pretty lame.

I have stopped flagging for  this kind of spam for the moment - I just wasn't getting answers back when i told folks it was a bad move

I'm still going around sharing your other article with newer steemians as they keep doing this, perhaps because Puss 'n Boots is just so compelling I hope he helps better get the message across! lol

Link: <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@shayne/steemit-tips-how-not-to-behave-on-steemit-follow-begging">Steemit Tips: How NOT To Behave On Steemit -- Follow-Begging</a>

https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmNpREsnyMaev4q7hzNBP2bnCqdV1AkrR5rVysNQy5GEX2/im-begging-you.jpg

As for thoughts on the "loan" thing, it may be easier to refer you to @timcliff's post, and our comment thread therein on the subject that starts with this:

>I think there's such a huge influx of new users that they're trying to cut down where they can. for example, I recently got my mom to sign up and she was delegated around 150SP.

>However, yesterday it was reduced down to like 4SP which quickly hit the bandwidth limits. @timcliff got them to set it back to 9, so I guess we'll see if that's enough to solve it (well, for now at least).

Link: <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@timcliff/new-accounts-don-t-have-enough-sp-to-fully-interact-with-the-blockchain-should-witnesses-update-the-max-block-size-discussion">New Accounts Don't Have Enough SP to Fully Interact with the Blockchain. Should witnesses update the Max Block Size? (Discussion)</a>

I like to add, that it also destroys your fun here if your newsfeed is full of posts you are not interested in. Also you have no relationship with your followers and it is likely they are not really interested in your content. Meaning you dont give upvotes and you dont recieve upvotes. 
A genuine connection with your followers and the people you follow will be way more benfical in the long run.

Generally not a fan of any kind of begging, unless it's for an extremely good cause.

Quote: *Follow me @shayne*

Et tu, Brute?

*wink*

I think this article is very well written.  I have noticed many commentors asking for a follow and or upvote.  Kinda crazy but it happens!!!

First I'd heard about the loan thing.
I agree about 'follow-beg'
It annoys me.
I try to avoid that which annoys me.

or stamp it out.

Even as a little minnow I dislike the few comments I get that are follow begging. I can't imagine  being someone that gets 100's of comments and 20 to 30 of them are people follow or ypvote begging. I feel like my 120 followers (which I am so proud of, thank you all!) is evidence that you don't need to beg for followers. Really, all I have done is comment and post what I feel is quality content. That's all it really takes, that and patience :)

Too true I do not follow anyone who asks for it, I only follow people that genuinely have interested me. And that's what everyone should do!

Shayne, thank you for this post. I learned something new here. I was not aware if I did not have over 50 steem after 30 days I could not use my account. That is something most people probably have no idea about.

I think I will be ok luckily from some great whales helping with some of my posts.

word!

Yeaa  ... so many people do this . Or i upvote you upvote me back .....

Excellent post, thank you. I've been seeing quite a few follow beggers lately and I usually refer them to <a href="https://steemit.com/reputation/@lukestokes/reputation-advice-from-someone-in-the-top-0-38">this</a>.

Good article, thank you for the provided information - especially the 50 SP needed for being able to actively contribute to the community were an information I was looking for. Not everything is to be found in the FAQ :-D cheers and don't flag me please,
Flagger ;-)

thanks shayne. I am definitely guilty of this in my first 2 weeks; although my steem power is only 30 I still have the loan?!  

Correction the loan is gone and aim below 50.. what happens now?!?

I stopped doing that, and found i received followers just by making thoughtful comments on other people's posts.

There are two types of people - those who build and those who take (aaaand may be 386425465 other types in between). 
I've seen follow-beg a lot here, though some may consider it as a friendly approach, I believe most are quick-start-to-buck chasers. Also, relationship matters. On my other social media I rarely accept request based on... just-cause. I research them and usually talk to them before accepting.  
Probably most of those follow-me-up-one-day-hit-n-run will die out of the platform eventually, and will realize it's not gonna work. I don't see them as ever succeeding.. yeah - they will learn the hard way. Then that energy put from the beg-forget-me-not-ers would have been stupidly wasted into the nothingness, as most would move out for the next win-me-quick-bucks fields/platforms so on..
In the end I'm a quality over quantity person. And in a platform like Steemit I believe it matters.