Asking to like, favorite, follow and retweet only makes it more likely that no one will follow you.

Would you go into a work meeting or community meetup and ask people to "like" what you just said? Since Steemit has financial rewards and a decent handle on identity and reputation, it's the decentralized equivalent.

It is interesting to see how people are taking informative communication more seriously here as opposed to the mental vomit that appears on other platforms, though.