Favorited (star) feature seems underutilized

The favorite feature was kind of confusing to me for a while.  

All other actions increase some sort of 'count' on the link, but
favorite-ing it doesn't. (And it appears to not change the score either.)

For a while I thought that favoriting might be a mechanism for 'pinning'
your favorite links to the top of your profile, but then i realized that
location in profile is just based on which item you have last interacted with.

So what is this feature for?  If you aren't planning on expanding it I
would say take it out.  

Ways you could make this feature more useful:
1. Make favorites purely about your own profile, its a way to 'pin' your
favorite items to the top of your profile.  In this case, I would say there
should be a distinct area at the top of the profile showing favorites
before recent activity.  Make it a way of "expressing yourself"
2. Instead just make a separate <username's> favorites page.
3. Incorporate Favorites into the scoring system/ show 'favorited' counts
4. The empty star icon could be made clearer.  As of now, it is very
confusing to figure out what has happened after you favorite something.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cwk...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2009 at 1:58

mckoss / g02me

Favorited (star) feature seems underutilized #36