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RE: How To Fix Steemit For Communities & Viral Engagement
I would be somewhat careful about possible motives of following someone. It could be just to increase "social relations" or a way to indirectly flatter the followed so as to "reciprocate" the following. You can follow 5000 people in the hope that even if 1/10 of them check their followings and reciprocate, you get 500 followers back.
Well it's based on stake so if the Steem Power holders want to follow those using the followback strategy it's their choice. I think over time most people will avoid people who are using the followback strategy because there is actual value in who they delegate to unlike Twitter. The fewer people you follow the more control you have over where you're directing power.
I was just trying to make it easy and combine the follower/curation list, but if people feel strongly they want to keep it separate it would just be a matter of creating a separate list of delegates. I just think it's easier from a UI/UX perspective to combine it and for the most part the follower & curation list would probably be largely the same.
The uniqueness aspect I proposed defeats this.
But following is not a "state". It's in flux. I click the button now and I'm following you and then click it and unfollow you. And then click it again and I'm following you.
So in the scenario above, I get 500 reciprocal followers and then unfollow the other 4500 which didn't follow me back... lol?
No problem. All this just get muted by the fact that everyone that follows everyone are no longer unique follows and thus deweighted relatively.