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organicAnt  ·  4076 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you click the wheel to share content does it mean you endorse it?

Thanks for clarifying. It makes sense.

I wonder if this is something worth explaining to new hubskiers? Or maybe this isn't a common confusion... maybe I'm the only hubsky dyslexic!

    However there is a confusion for me in Hubski's grammar. Clicking an article Hubwheel implies share/initiate discussion. Clicking the Hubwheel beside a comment seems to imply approve/reward/acknowledge.

That's a good point. This might be why I started to get confused. But everyone's explanations makes it clear now. Thank you.





Complexity  ·  4076 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There exists a term in Arabic called 'wasta' which loosely translates as 'clout' or 'social power'. For me this somehow informs the Hubwheel. Clicking one either beside a post or a comment bestows upon its author some 'social clout' (which also adds up in their own personal Hubwheel). In Sufism, the term Baraka means 'blessing' or 'spiritual power'.

Maybe clicking a Hubwheel really means that you publicly bestow your blessing upon a link or comment?

organicAnt  ·  4076 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I never thought of it in such a poetic way. I shall bear this in mind, specially when hubsking in a zen state : )