To be fair, I said that I abhor tribalism, not cults of personality. :) But, in all seriousness, I do see an important distinction, which your comment forced me to define in my own mind. I have little problem with people being admired for their personal contributions and accomplishments, but do take issue with admiration for association or some similar low-effort criteria of inclusion. When I say tribalism, I am referring to an inclusiveness based upon ideology, or place, or in this case, time.

That said, at this point, that is my only reticence regarding implementation of the feature, and I think it can be easily mitigated. For my part, I am leaning towards doing it, and I think the rest of the team feels similarly. We are going to talk over it on Monday.

To be perfectly honest, we probably hamstring ourselves by being so sensitive about these kinds of dynamics. People love to form groups, and Hubski doesn't make it easy to do so. It's something I am well aware of, and I've wondered if my stance on the point isn't still too extreme. It was in the case of tags, as you won't let me forget. There have been other features that we have entertained that have not been implemented based on this approach. For example, we have been tossing around the idea of group tags for some time. That is, you create a unique group tag, and choose who can use it. It wouldn't quite be like a subreddit, since the users that could post would be limited, but it would create something akin to a custom community that could be followed.