Something else entirely: I notice that only a small percentage of your followers votes for, or looks at, your postings, even when you compensate the numbers for dead followers.
I have the same. If all these people don't ever look at, or vote for, my content, then why are they following me? Maybe they are stalkers, not followers.
Any ideas on this?
The mid May spike in the price of Steem attracted a lot of people, looking for a quick buck. They realize they need a lot of followers to make a lot of cash, so they hope the traditional follow-for-follow strategy would work here (while copy pasting articles from the net, hoping to get upvotes).
The problem is that Steemit doesn't notify anyone of new followers, so this strategy doesn't really work. So they now follow hundreds of people, but won't bother unfollowing them - first, because unfollowing so many people is a very slow and time consuming process, but mostly because they don't use their Home feed in the first place (they don't care about people's content, they care about cash).
Instead they stalk the New feed, for articles with a big (SBD wise) upvote. Not only will they get more cash as curators from these posts, but the rich authors often upvote any comments on their posts, bringing in more profits to the ever hungry minnows. That's why rich authors are more popular - even though they often post low quality content.
This whole thing would've ended with Steem's price falling back down again, with WannaCrypt's slow decline in number of infected computers (and related Bitcoin laundering), were it not for yesterday's news of a new ransomware, named Petya.
If it is successful, expect the events from mid May to repeat themselves.
p.s. I've gotten good at typing on my phone! But my fingerprints are now gone.
Good time for a burglary!
Thanks for the reaction, I'm going to do a post about this, I think. I also think that, if you want to reply to that post, you should copy-and-paste the above comment, to prevent wearing down your fingers to the bone 8-).
Haha, I'll make a point to do so :)