Agreed. What's also really hard to watch is all these "low quality" content spammers flooding the place with junk. Other people watching them, and thinking they should flood it with junk too.

NO.... I can prove that good quality content does eventually get recognized... and when it does, people will read back the previous posts in your blog and realize "wow, I never new this person was writing this stuff before. I'm following them now"....

...but if your blog contains a bunch of historical "junk" posts... you're not going to get nearly as many followers that you would if you have a solid history of good content. :)