Personally I️ find that the follow4follow and ifollowback crowds aren’t the same as getting organic followers from a: writing quality comments to posts that you’ve actually read and spent a moment using critical thinking to digest their post and b: by writing top content, not only here but promoting I️t to avenues like Reddit, YouTube, etc.

Either way takes a lot more work but if steemit was some kind of circle jerk money grab for anyone who can type ifb and re steem posts to their collection of bots than I️t wouldn’t be the platform we love.

(Idk if I️t qualifies my opinion any more but I️ have nearly 600 followers in a few months- steemit is brains1cks best platform)