I was thinking about this before. It seems to me like followers are going to become the new measure of popularity. (Perhaps this will render popularity threads obsolete? Ah, I crack myself up sometimes.) So, it makes sense that over the coming weeks, we'll see a lot of people jockeying for followers as a way of building up their forum rep, as it were. I think it's going to be interesting to see what people try, and what effect the follower dynamic will have on the way people post here in the future. Personally, however, I don't think I'll be going out of my way to get followers - it just feels too much like Twitter to me, and while I really love Twitter and have a lot of fun on it, the whole follower race business has always felt really tiring and sucked the fun out of it. What are your thoughts on this new feature, and how do you think it'll affect the way we post and interact?