@macgenie I guess some could use that approach. But when I started here, I didn't look to anyone else to help me choose who to follow. I made the decision to follow or not follow by myself in each case, by observing what the varous people were doing who I had to choose among. And since we were not gonna play the numbers game, if I was in doubt about a follow, I would usually follow, so I could watch their postings for a while. If later events showed me I had made a major blunder, I would then unfollow to fix it. No one would ever know, which gave me great flexibility and freedom. It never seemed hard to me at all. I suppose my approach meant that I was more likely to follow people who were active, as how would I know they existed if they weren't replying to people who I was following, so I could see their postings. If there are brilliant people who I know by reputation that I want to follow, I would be able to pick them out of the master opt-in list of people here.