I enjoy skimming all the articles in reader to look for the true gems. If anything, I'm growing tired of reading about what "the collective" likes or thinks is interesting. This is why I have a long tail of niche blogs in my feed that are never going to make it on the front page of Digg and which would probably bore the heck out of 85% of my friends. They are true gems that *I* find enjoyable. I couldn't care less whether tomtom53 "likes" the latest posts on "In the Pipeline". It has no value to me.