Following people is a problem here as far as I can see. In theory it's a reputation system but everyone is basically a stranger here but if you have more followers you're granted more weight. It really just makes the whole site more insular as people who've been here longer have more of a posse.

If I agree with a complete idiot about one valid point on a website his opinion shouldn't be counter weighted by his general grumblings that women are inferior emotional beings. A degree of anonymity is better on the internet than everything you say being tied to a "Person" who isn't real. Everyone has something to contribute and that's what the internet is good at, just not this part of it. That's my honest opinion on this experiment without a solution.

I don't like agreeing with people I'd otherwise write off as idiots but I also don't like writing off people you seem to like who are obviously naive 20 somethings who won't shut up on this website. But that is the reality I'm presented with when it's based entirely on a username system of prestige.