I see your point. I know that feeling of guilt not really wanting to follow someone that followed reesteemed and even upvoted and their comment says please follow. I just smile because I remember what the white papers warned about when I first signed up. Yet if they followed me then I know I'll get around to checking their blog out. I do my best to go through my followers list. I'm only 35 days into steemit so I know they will probably be the ones seeing my post.
There's a learning curve on steemit. #steemit seems to be the tag with the highest paid amounts. There are so many how to's and theories posted it takes a while to figure out what works best, not to mention the community is growing fast. I smile at newbie mistakes cause I know others will put them in place. Yet anyone that reads your post will have no excuse, and woe to them that don't and just comment. Lol Thanks for sharing.