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What I think mknod is saying is that more information on who this person you are being suggested to cater this new experience around would be a good thing. When you're new to the site, it can seem like a pretty big decision and the only info we give about these users are topics they've expressed interests in. I've always thought that perhaps the way to go is to have a new user choose up to 10 tags to follow and then Hubski automatically gives you 5 users based on those tags to initially follow. It's important to note that "unfollowing" people is really easy and is not considered "mean" in any way. I will often unfollow users as I add in new users to change my experience from time to time.