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Just curious, why do you "follow" HN users?

Personally, HN is where the content is the most important thing, usually disregarding the poster, but I'm interested in your view.

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I haven't been doing it long, but it came to mind after noticing a user with a ton of karma & being interested in many of their previous submissions. Then I realized I'd seen patterns before when reading other users' submissions- someone with lots of AI/ML -related stuff for example. But I never bookmarked them so I feel like I'll miss out on others' themed contributions unless I bookmark & look regularly.

If you upvote/favorite enough comments & stories, you will observe a few recurring usernames. It would be good to have a view/feed of their stories & comments. For that matter, since favorites are public, it would be useful to see analytics based on favorited comments & stories.

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