reputation plugin

[roadscape]

hivemind can supplant nearly all functionality of the tags and follow plugins, except for rep score. I suspect it's a relatively cheap computation compared to the rest of the follow plugin, so it would be convenient if it was separated out.

[mvandeberg]

For now, we can keep the follow plugin as is. I do not see an advantage to separating it out at this point in time. We will do a little bit of extra work (tracking follows twice), but there are much higher priorities at the moment.

[roadscape]

Sounds good. As a partial workaround I'm using follow-start-feeds = 2000000000 to ignore feeds themselves, but I assume tracking of follows has non-trivial overhead.

We will do a little bit of extra work (tracking follows twice)

Not sure I understand; rep doesn't depend on follow status.

[mvandeberg]

We will be tracking follows in hivemind and steemd.