Ideas
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Tooltip hover profile and follow
In the same style of twitter/tumblr etc, hovering over someone's name in your feed etc could come up with the short profile and a follow button so you can tell if you're following someone quickly and so on.
Customer support service by UserEcho
We have a few other ways that we're considering this - we're looking into adding follow buttons on users' icons in the community tab as well as a follow back button in notifications. At the moment, while I like the idea of hovering over someone's name for more information, it's also a good amount of development time for something that doesn't have too much demand. If we had more demand in the future, we could look into this again.