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Yes, I am leery of building a site that revolves around a small group of influential users. In fact, you might have noticed that I removed 'popular hubs' from the discover page yesterday. I replaced it with 'recently badged'. I am still doing work there, but I don't want to artificially cluster newcomers around certain users just because they were here first.
I'd rather visibility to the community as a whole to be a transient thing, dependent upon the quality of your most recent posts and comments, and not upon a legacy. Of course, a user will keep most of the followers they have earned, but if they want to get more of them, they have to keep providing good reason for it.