Forget about looking for followers. It will not give you upvotes/money. Find people with the same passions and share your point of view. Only they will atay with you and upvote.

thank you!
however, I disagree that each post needs to be a long and well researched one. Some people I read write this way, but I can not give this much time and attention to all my followers and all those I follow.

I think we need to rethink our creative output on a platform built to regenerate on an average of 2 hours and promotes posting 4 times a day etc.

I think creating blocks of content, ones that we are still each passionate about in 2-4 hours increments will work bet here. Because also unused votes and unclaimed Steem negatively effects all of us.

we just have to explore that balance together. :]