I had this epiphany as I reviewed my ever expanding feed tonight. For a long time I was reluctant to follow to many people since it starts to fill up my feed, well the inevitable is finally happening and my real estate is getting filled up. I know I've seen I've a lot of people suggest filtering out resteems and it could help, but what I really want is a favorite or VIP list.

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Proposal

I should start by explaining my usual content curation and reading practices. There are a few authors and friends that I really don't want to miss a post, they write some pretty compelling and interesting stuff. When I only have a limited amount of time those are the blogs I really want to read, so I scroll through the feed and try to notice them. Then when I have some more time I filter through my general feed looking for anything else that jumps out before next digger deeper down and searching a few tags I like to follow.

Therefore the idea would simple just having a VIP list, so that I can search only those blogs from users on that list.

Now that I'm on it, why not also add a filter feature, so maybe we can cross reference our feed with a certain tag as well. This would be very handy for some of the more active tags that attract alot of spam.

I'm really going down a rabbit hole now, but what if maybe we could even filter a tag feed by users with certainly reputation. I would be able to filter out some likely spammers if I only chose some higher reputations, and I could also filter out higher reputations if I was actively spending some time curating or searching out some new users.

Benefits

I think it would encourage some people to go ahead and follow more members since they don't have to worry about clogging up there feed to much since they can always filter by the VIP list. The other filters would just make browsing on steemit much more user friendly, which is a frequent complaint I've hearing on the platform.

I have heard suggestions for different search features, but have yet to see this specific idea myself, I hope it's novel and add's to the conversation

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