About ... 8 months ago (?) hubski was mentioned at the top of an r/theoryofreddit post and for about two weeks afterward certain parts of the site were a mess. The ignore and mute and so on completely proved their worth and everything equalized, but there was definitely a noticeable effect.
Has there been any lasting effect? Has the site changed much since the last mention? I'm really interested in all of this.
What I see hasn't! What I see is different from what you see, and mk sees, and so on. That's one of the beauties of hubski. Influxes like this have proved overwhelmingly positive, because only the best of those who flood in stay. We got some of my favorite hubski users from that r/tor post.
I remember joining after that r/tor post. I really wished I had put the time into Hubski that I'm putting into it now. I'm really enjoying this place.
I've already been reading more than I ever had without Hubski. I think with Reddit, other time wasting content was too readily available. I unsubbed from pretty much all of the defaults but I still wasn't getting all out of Reddit that I should. I think the main difference now is that Hubski gives me a reason to want to spend twenty minutes reading through an article.
I think the stongest point of Hubski is that the content is quite limited. I can't spend hours scrolling headlines like I did at Reddit. Often enough, after a page or so I've seen most of the content of the day. That means that nearly every post gets my full attention: I want to participate in the discussions, so I want to read the articles. And when I'm out of content, conversation is always possible and encouraged.was too readily available
No, not basically that. It is an aspect of the greater picture, but to reduce my post to that would lose the nuance. The difference is the value I give to a post, not just the value that the post already has. Reddit might have the exact same article, but I give it much more thought here than on there, because I know that it might spawn a good discussion. Simplifying a statement always reduces some quality, but if you simplify too much you might lose it completely.
The good users stayed. There was a huge influx of posts and circlejerking posts that no one really noticed. They all got bored and left in a week but a number of people stayed and are still here and are the best.