I really agree with what you say, "do not force others to follow you or you will endure the disappointment later.

Let alone leave a link on the comment just to want to get upvote from them, I really agree with you. How to work in steemit is to create good content, if we have done it, then our followers will increase by itself without us tell them, even we will get the result in the future.
I see a lot of new users do that, they do not know about how this steemit works. I hope with a notice like this they will understand and can make good content every day.
Thank you @luzcypher for sharing this information, this is very useful for me and society steemit all.