My stream seems to rely on authors who have been followed and tags or authors that are set to not be active for myself.
What I'd like to see is an option to have all authors except those I specifically selected to be deactivated showing up in my stream.
Currently, new authors will need to be added to the follower list which seems to also add all of the new stories to my library and bookmark them. But I would need to scan the main feed to find the new authors and then select them to be followed.
Seems to be a much heavier load on users and library management forcing users to essentially follow all authors except the dozen or ten who they never want to see again.
A simple toggle to set the preference for the user and a tweak to the sql to build the stream page. Then if a new author shows up needing to be removed from the stream, we add that to the exclusion list.
I suspect the personalized stream would have a lot more users with that option.