Following the example of Twitter, it’s helpful to see who’s following who. Flip side, like Twitter, watchout for the spammers who follow you just so you’ll check out who they are and possibly buy some of their wares.
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I’m leaning more towards an “open” approach to other people’s My Fluther. For example, when I was setting up My Fluther, I really found it helpful to see which people were being followed by the ones I was following myself.
Further, I think that My Fluther in its current incarnation acts more like a limiter that prevents me from seeing things. That’s fine when that’s what I want… but I think I’d like more control. Ability to sort and filter based on criteria I specify. Allow me to really make it My Fluther. For that to work, the fluther gods will need to surface some of the currently inaccessible attributes of a Question, like:
> specifically who’s following it
> specifically who’s answered it
> specifically who got a GA on it
> datetime stamps
> total GAs awarded in a Question
> total # of followers
> total # of quips
> # of quips / # of followers
> etc.
NOTE: most of those criteria are visible to us today. Not secret or personal at all. We’d just need to read and manually collate the data. I want those attribs available as sort/filter criteria in My Fluther.
When it matures to a certain point, I doubt there will be a need to differentiate between Questions for You and My Fluther. It’ll all just be My Fluther.
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The gist of this has already been posted to Man o’ War.