I would argue that follow/fav will turn HN into a other kinds of social media?
You want to hear/read interesting topics, comments and voice your opinion. While reading the favorite person's comment is really good, I don't limiy myself to that.
I normally go to NEW tab rather than just home page and to ASK tab occasionnaly.
Follow/Fav might just ruin my homefeed making me bias.
I realize this probably isn't what Joewee was asking for but maybe RSS feeds are a compromise? Lower amount of work on the programming side while still being able to accomplish this feature.
You want to hear/read interesting topics, comments and voice your opinion. While reading the favorite person's comment is really good, I don't limiy myself to that.
I normally go to NEW tab rather than just home page and to ASK tab occasionnaly.
Follow/Fav might just ruin my homefeed making me bias.