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It'd be interesting to see a site like Twitter that hid all follower/following relationships.
Why?
Less of an implied popularity contest.
Popularity would still be expressed by number of replies from the "right" people. How do you hide that?
I can't think of a way, but LW feels like much less of a popularity contest, and it has that problem.
How would you feel about a market for better communicators on LW? Say, voluntary character limits (twice Twitter's? thrice?) and a Gunning Fog meter. Not sure how you'd establish successful compression, but if you could, more karma could be awarded for it than for a typical comment style.
I don't think verbosity is a big problem on LW. People not making posts for fear of being downvoted, or just not investing the time necessary to create good discussion/top-level posts, seems much bigger.
Accessibility is a problem, and verbosity is one of the causes.
It is much more segmented popularity contest because who are the "right" people vaires.
Follower count is a global instantly updated popularity contest, which may be considered worse.
Kate Evans earned a ton of followers quickly because her feed is really good (if occasionally opaque). Twitter is a segmented popularity contest, but the segments populated mostly by rationalists lend credence to the notion of a functional reputation market.