Having been on here for a while now, I've seen a lot of people responding to posts that people take a long time and a lot of work to prepare with "follow me." That's it, generally... every once in awhile you get something like, "Nice post- follow me." Speaking for myself, this just pisses me off and is counterproductive in my opinion. If you want people to follow you... produce some good content- something worth reading, or viewing.
I saw an introductory post by a young woman who posted only a picture and a caption that read (guess what?) FOLLOW ME. By the way, the title was, are you ready... Follow Me. I want to see everyone that comes to Steemit succeed, but I don't think this is the way to go. I'm not a very good writer as far as writers go, but I put a lot of time and effort into what I write. Typically, a chapter of the Night Gods, or the Lottery Council will take me 4-5 hours to complete... I agonize over every word to make certain it says what I want to say. When I get "follow me" for a comment. you can only imagine what I think!
Sometimes, I get "follow me and I'll follow you back"... (usually from someone with 25 followers, or so). Gee, I think... don't do me any favors. Actually, it's more like- Fuck you, follow this! I would rather have 100 loyal followers that read my stuff than 1000 of the "follow me" assholes. After posting, I'm cleaning out my "following" list and if I don't know you, or you're not someone that's come up with something better than "follow me" adios! I hope I don't lose a bunch of followers over this, but I guess if I do, they weren't really followers after all.