Please don’t turn this into an e-celebrity twitter clone with all that circlejerking, it would be even better to remove the authors name, just whatever the content/comment is posted that matters, someone might like a post from an author but don’t like the other post, seeing the author might prevent proper criticism or add bias, an author-anonymous contents are the best.
https://disco.cloud/
https://www.guycombinator.net/
- Highlight comments from a customizable set of particular authors
- Highlight commenters that reply within their subthreads
But of course, that loses some of the charm of working just for Greg :)