Great Stephen, I might do the same with my own following list.
I am super grateful that I already have close to 130 followers in less than 2 weeks, but in some ways it is a false metric.
Now that I am running my commenter reward experiment, I am going to clean up my feed too.
Some people I cut out of my following list might in turn take me off their list, that is fine, if "follow for follow" was the only reason. I don't really think they add value to my blog here.
After I filtered it, I will start adding back the people that have engaged with me through upvotes or are commenting on my stuff.
Those are the people I want to hear from.
It took me an hour to clean up mine. Basically I figure its best to follow those following you and supporting you but keep tabs and clean house if they dip out. Make your profile an exclusive club of people you want to help and are supportive of you as well...follow for follow is okay, that isn't a bad thing but when they do that but drop their follow and eat up your feed area its kind of pointless to keep them if your trying to help those in your list.
You can still look on the old trend area for new people and upvote strangers but I realized I need to focus most on those being supportive, its only fair to them right? Just how I view it, all are welcome but I rather keep a policy of mutual follows from now on. Keeps it cleaner
The way I am doing it now is to first unfollow all.
Then go through the replies I received and follow them again
this way I will be following people who at least had a constructive interaction with me. Might kill my follower list but hey at least those that stick around will be willing to engage with me hehe.
EDIT: pfew done, feel better already, the feed was getting out of hand, lots of crap I did not want to look at, almost became Facebook ish gasp
I really hope the other Steem blockchain interfaces start to take off or that Steemit.com comes out of BETA. It has been great so far but I am feeling the limitations now...
would love to be able to follow a tag and upvote that
I just unfollowed my FOLLOWING LIST then went back into my FOLLOWER list and added them all back, mutual follows I respect its the ones I had that don't follow back and hang on that bugged me...a bunch of them were spamming lol...and eating up my feed so didn't see the point in keeping them as my follows, they don't even come to my profile anyways. I though believe you should hold the mutual follows of those following you, its kind of a respect thing because they are putting you in their feeds
I went hardcore, only followed those that replied to my posts , I will talk to the people in the slack group my reasons but I think I need to be strict to keep the metrics valuable.
I might also start to add people that upvoted, but that might get out of hand again...
lol...hey its user choice in this area, just make sure you do it as you want and keeps you organized here. Its a bit messy in some ways on that but I am sure as they get the ALPHA site done it will be easier to maintain, i hope lol