I just watched the portrait of you by Steve and I thought "It's too much time I don't read a content by Slobberchops (my fault)" and so I opened your page and I read this post. I premise this little thing because  I totally agree with your sentence "The connections on Steemit tend to be reciprocal, and yes it may be called ‘circle-jerking’ but we are human but that’s what humans do!". This is true and I admit I love it, because we are humans, we tend to read the topics that are attractive/interesting for us and we tend to follow people with similar interests. It's humans and it's a better approach than to read/comments/follow people just because they are "rich". :D