Alternatively, perhaps we can let users select (follow) a set of like-minded people and make the up-votes of the people they pick weigh more on a "customized" f

Alternatively, perhaps we can let users select (follow) a set of like-minded people and make the up-votes of the people they pick weigh more on a "customized" front page. But then people may have not like having their up-votes be so transparent..