And hence, a form of "curation," right? If we are here for content and engagement... well at least, I apply this to most of my own posts... we can use votes to "organize" responses to where the best and most relevant/insightful end up near the top, and the one-worders near the bottom.
I have 7000 fake followers with only less than 100 real ones :/
I get that... of course, the reverse of that equation is that — unless you're on here day and night — keeping up with more than 100 full-time/regular bloggers is a shitload of work. I pretty much burned out on the whole "followers" thing on twitter... twit spam: "We can get you 10,000 followers for just $99.99!" Followers, my arse... more like 10,000 dummy accounts.
The web is full of wannabe journalists and writers; fewer than 1% actually create content interesting enough for people to follow and READ on a regular basis, simply because it's interesting.