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RE: Why is it important to follow and upvote small accounts? - The key to a healthy community growth.
I have to play devil's advocate a little here, I feel like there is some detriment to "follow for follow" style networking.
There are many examples of accounts, especially outside of steem, where "follow for follow" leads to thousands of followers, etc, but in a very spammy way. Soundcloud, a popular independent music streaming site, has a big problem with this.
I'd argue that it is better to curate and engage with great content WITHOUT asking for follows and upvotes in return. Be generous and give, give, give. In my personal experience, this has worked wonderfully and forces me to create great content to earn attention and income.
I agree with you for the most part.
Just to be clear, I've never asked for a follow-back and have only announced that I've followed someone maybe four or five times out of the 120+ accounts that I follow. As @anomadsoul said in reply to my comment to him, what I'm implying is: "it is like an unspoken agreement as long as both accounts keep posting quality content."
I don't simply go around upvoting and following everyone that uses those keywords and then ask them to return the favor. Rather, I find the authors who produce quality content for those keywords and try to develop the type of relationship with them in which we can essentially build off of each other's contributions and/or compliment/ reinforce them with our own style/ input. In other words, the type of relationship which is mutually beneficial, in which both parties grow.
So, while I will comment, upvote and follow certain individuals with the agenda in mind to help my own following (account) grow (acting in self-interest), it's not without real intention to also help that person's account, and the community itself, to grow. I want the keyword to grow and everybody who focuses their blog on it.