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RE: Random Ponderings About Steemit
If I was to guess, I'd say the vast majority of your 'followers' are actually bots or ghost accounts of some sort (i.e. not real people). There seems to be a lot of that on Steemit. I'm not sure what the point or advantage of them 'following' you might be. Especially if they don't participate. But then I'm not sure about a lot of things here on Steemit... :-)
Yeah, I know some are definitely non-people, though I have no idea what percentage. And, like you said, having a bunch of fakes that don't participate--and thus have no chance to get any rewards--seems weirdly pointless. Oh well, maybe it's all a mystery of faith.
Larken, from my point of view as someone who has been a fan of yours for more than a decade: I am a Steemit follower of yours here since 2016, but I also didn't log in to Steemit between 2016 and now. So, that's one follower who didn't react to posts. Further, on my own account here, 90%+ of my followers are spam. For example, somebody called "hdporn" follows me. That's presumably to get me to check them out. Follower count does not seem meaningful.
I'm starting to think there's fairly high % of non-people. Either that or 90% of the real people follow folks and then simply don't participate. Kinda defeats the purpose of even being here, I would think...