- There should be more information shared on your profile page if you’re following the person looking at it. This should be opt-in information and we should come up with a way to psychologically incentivize it. - When I look at someone else’s profile page, I should see it in their theme, not mine. I think this is a fine idea. Especially as the options expand as the API is utilized by those with the ability to expand it.

- I should be able to see the content and comments I’ve shared by someone very easily, ideally from the main page.

My guess is that if the below options existed it wouldn't be as necessary to make this a main page function. My biggest problem right now is that there is a level of user that I would consider an "acquaintance" and I mix them up with other users. If they had an avatar, I would be able to remember them MUCH more easily and remember my past interactions. I'm a visual learner and this would solve MANY woes for me here.

- I should be able to customize the way my name appears (color, font, points, etc) for people who follow me. People who follow me should tell me that bold italic gothic in 18 point blue is pompous as fuck. I'm not too keen on that. I think a hover avatar solves for anything the font would and I don't need my feed full of weird fonts etc. I like how clean the site looks. That said, this could easily be an opt-in thing that I just never turn on.

- I know mk hates the fuck out of avatars, but I should be able to opt-in to a hover avatar, especially for people who follow me.

I love this idea. Always have. Again, I'm a visual learner and would get so much mileage out of such a thing. I think it was elizabeth that recently commented that she was impressed with how I remember various hubskiers etc on the site and suggested that I must have a secret spread-sheet (I don't) -I literally just remember everyone cuz I consider many of you friends. I could VASTLY extend that network of remembered interactions if people had avatars I could see when I hovered over their names etc. I once suggested that users could upload any image/photo and it could be automatically pixalated a-la the WSJ:

Probably an awful idea, but it could keep the site looking clean while giving people some creativity and giving users the ability to distinguish people and remember them better.

Written quickly, apologies for any typos.

Edit: Also, I want to say thank you to you and to the others that take the time not to just gripe about something but to suggest solutions. You are right, this site is and will continue to be driven by ideas that largely originate from those that use the site. Why wouldn't it? But yeah, thanks. This is great stuff KB.