RE: Time for a 'Following' audit? - Some thoughts on User Authority
Also @abh12345
An account with next to no SP who's not posted/commented this year would seem to suggest they were no longer with us. Following such accounts could potentially lower your User Authority score (@scipio to confirm but I think I'm correct in saying this!)
While every follow broadcast on the entire Steem network changges each and every UA score of every account, following 1 specific account has an extremely low significant effect on UA scores, on average.
If you follow, say, 300 accounts, and decide to unfollow 1 (299 remaining), then depending on your own UA score, a tiny bit (in this example about 0.3%) more of your own UA is transferrred to the remaining accounts you are following, and the effect on your own UA is even smaller, but could go up or down, which is not possible to determine as a general rule of thumb. That all depends on how your account is connected to other accounts you are following, that follow you, and how they follow others and get followed themselves.
Sorry, I could not be clearer! :-) UA is pretty complex
Thanks for your feedback to the comments in this post @scipio!
This is quite interesting, and no doubt is pretty complex to monitor and use. Hats off to you for the work so far, and good luck!