I'll bet I'm more careful. But I follow tags. And a lot of them are broad - #technology, for example. Which means either we start parsing things down to nothing, or we put a whole buncha people on ignore. Even that doesn't solve the problem, though. Unless the tags you're following are filled by the people you'd follow if you followed people, you end up with nothing to follow. My own personal queue hasn't moved in weeks. The global stuff? Not worth paying attention to. So really, I'm successfully weeding myself out. Except maybe I like the conversation, too. So what do? …getter of goats.Maybe this is just me, but I've not experienced a degredation with new user influxes because (I'm guessing) I'm pretty careful about who I follow.
Of course not. Everybody knows that was Rancid.
I still mostly follow people, but I've recently switched methods on that too, where as opposed to very slowly adding people based on links they submit, I do the same but only for comments they make that I happen across. I was thinking yesterday how it would be an interesting experiment to follow people strictly via the quality of their comments, ignore links completely, and make your front page the 'chatter' link. Ok, ok, Ramones. None of that proto-punk nonsense, and we'll ignore how much they sound like the Beach Boys.Except maybe I like the conversation, too. So what do?
…getter of goats.