I want to be able to edit community tags! Someone told me you can't do that until you get your first hubwheel, so I've been concentrating on doing that ever since.

That's weird. Dunno. Sometimes finding features on Hubski is like playing Riven.

What problems, specifically?

Specifically Hubski is set up more like Tumblr or Wordpress than Reddit or Digg, in that it's all about who you follow and it's very provider-centric, but that mk feels he will make Baby Jesus cry if he gives providers the basic and fundamental options of being able to shut trolls the fuck up on content they provided.

RANT ON

There are assholes all over the Internet. There are assholes on Youtube, there are assholes on Facebook, there are assholes on Myspace, there are assholes on Reddit, and yes, Virginia, there are assholes on Hubski.

Should you post something on Facebook that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down.

Should you post something on Myspace that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down.

Should you post something on Youtube that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down.

Should you post something on Wordpress that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down.

Should you post something on Reddit - well, you're fucked. You can delete it. But then, you didn't post it to your own private subreddit or else you could just kick out the assholes. You posted it to /r/AssholeConvergence, which is known for hosting assholes. Yeah, you could post it to /r/PrivateIdaho which is all your own, but the mere existence of /r/PrivateIdaho is reason enough for the mob to burn you at the stake. So those are the ground rules. You are not a man, you are a number. Dance, monkey.

Hubski, on the other hand...

Post something and attract assholes and you're fucking stuck with it. Can you delete your post? Yeah, but then mk, thenewgreen and half of the Motor City Meatheads get a case of the vapours about how you're destroying information. Mention that Hubski's architecture is highly refined for trolling and get "we've had no problems with trolls as of yet." Point out that Hubski's last big influx of users was the CIRCLEJERKERS following you over from Reddit and that MK had to hand-censor a lot of their trolling and get "that was an isolated incident." Act in a deliberately inflammatory fashion (like, say, calling foul on the half-dozen meatheads arguing that everyone who works in Hollywood deserves to starve because fuck them...on something you linked... that they found because they follow you...and you've made exactly zero secret of the fact you work in hollywood and have, in fact, answered direct question from some of the aforementioned meatheads about Hollywood in the past) and you're "deliberately spoiling the system" or some such shit.

The real problem comes from the following facts:

1) Passion engenders affinity 2) Passion engenders enmity 3) Psychologically, one criticism has the same payload as five equal compliments

...and everyone who provides all your best content will burn out eventually because one asshole counts as much as five nice people.

Add to that the fact that "ignore" doesn't silence anyone's comments, add to that the fact that you can't keep someone from following you, add to that the fact that neither TheNewGreen or MK understand just.how.shitty it can be to try and share something only to have eight hundred people calling you niggerfagjewcunt and threatening your wife's life and you end up with a site that has a lot of potential, has a lot of lovely people, and has the seeds of its own destruction sewn and germinating.

RANT OFF

those problems, specifically.