You've been here two years. The lion's share of users have been here two weeks. Most of their discussions are going to be related to "WTF is this place?". Speaking as someone with 555 followers, it's retarded that anything I post has 10 times the viewership of something joelg236 posts. Rather than foster egality and discovery, it's turned me into a "kingmaker" - a post that sits for a day with zero votes will pop up to the top if I guess correctly that it's worthy. I still feel quite strongly that people who are interested in writing should be able to click "follow #writebetterdammit" and be done with it, rather than type "writebetterdammit" into the search bar, find nothing, click on "community", see it's neither a popular nor a trending tag, and give up in frustration. It's three clicks to even see the tags I'm ignoring. Let me follow stuff instead of dudes and I'm much more likely to find stuff I'm interested in.