This would incentivize the rock-star attitude, leading to a large number of posts created by people to have followers. This, in turn, will lead to the exclusion

This would incentivize the rock-star attitude, leading to a large number of posts created by people to have followers. This, in turn, will lead to the exclusion of stories and comments from people who don't want to spend time gaining followers. Rock-star is the antithesis of hacker, imho.