I have 1421 followers, I have no idea how I got that many, in a way I have never built any rapport with them and I think they don't represent much in the way of upvotes, but it still is a nice feeling that all of these people have taken the time to click the follow link.
As for Steemcleaners I was once not flagged but cautioned because I wrote about a Chinese legend, I copied the content from another website and commented about it, I still think that is in no way plagiarism, I mean that legend was about 2,000 years old, no way the author was going to get upset about it, I had a lengthy argument with steemcleaners about this but they never admitted to having made a mistake and legally it is also out of any problems, I don't know if that disqualifies me.