I'm just curious, since we are unable to follow specific topics and instead can only follow people, in the long run how will the site prevent people from exploiting this? Wasn't this a problem with this type of format in the Digg days?
Can you clarify what you mean by "exploiting this"?
So people might get paid because they have a following on Hubski? Is this what you mean? Who cares? So long as they post quality content, I'll follow them otherwise I won't. If they get paid to post quality content that I like, what do I care? It's sort of a buyer beware situation, right? If you follow someone and they post crap, shame on you. The burden of maintaining a feed of integrity is solely on you. If someone has 200k hubski followers but I "ignore" them, they don't make a dent in my world.