Poor Sharon --- Woofie follows her, Mary lists her in the acknowledgements page of her book -- she can't escape!
Seriously, I don't care if folks disagree with me, as long as I'm certain that I made my point clearly. Sometimes I ramble a lot and never actually make my point.
Back on topic -- the feature I use most often is the watched thread list.
I love hitting the home page and seeing immediately if topics I'm following have new posts in them. And blog-watcher!