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neptath  ·  4133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Following authors?

If it's follow-able, how would you handle cases such as "S. Sliverstein" versus "Silverstein" versus "Shel Silverstein"? Intuitively, they might all be the same person, but they might be different authors as a computer sees it. It might reduce in the same way that tags have to some extent ( #economy and #economics, for example), but with rarely-posted authors, fragmentation might still be a problem.

I love the idea, but just something to consider.