The Following system is a valid solution for a problem that do not exist still.
Following is filtering too much "garbage".
But once the site reach Reddit size, Following seems a decent system. In the meantime, does Following prevent new users to come, flood, and "generate garbage" ? If so not cool. But I think it give a nice "social" layer, new users may enjoy (at least at first)
Was the site build to have "meaningful, elite, etc" conversation ? That does not seems inclusive. That seems even rather judgmental and a bit pretentious... But hey.. Who am I to judge! Hubski is far from generating too much of anything.
Hahahahaha..... Makes me wonder if eating somewhere that doesn't have fries on the menu is something you view as pretentious. Plenty of places where the "conversation" is a stream of GIF's interspersed by one liners and single sentence responses. I guess not wanting to be someplace where that is the norm could be looked at as elite and judgmental. I suppose it is judgmental when I shake my head at people who tell me how they took their wife out to a fine dinner at Red Lobster on valentines day. Thank god for all the choices we have and how they provide tailored niches for us all.
Make sure to tilt your head back to make staring down your nose easier on your eyes.
Like here on Hubski? I have no idea. I posted that comment because I thought you were being rude for no reason. I could have probably been less rude in my reply to you though, so I'm sorry about that.