Do you think this is a result of the hubwheel being the same for sharing and for upvoting a comment? Given that they're the same icon, I suppose it may be confusing. I wonder if this needs fixing.Hubski often has an overly-friendly relationship with self-produced content. Your pictures are going to be shared because many users don't understand the difference between "I support you" and "I want others to see your work."
This is actually really tricky and has been kind of confusing since I got here. I wasn't sure what was happening to the comments when I clicked the wheel. Does this make the post "more shared"? Does it put this comment at the top, but only for people that follow me? Or is just like a reddit upvote? I understand how the post voting works, that's pretty simple. It's like reddit, and people can subscribe to things you share. That understanding came pretty quick while I was on here. Up until now, I've been hesitant to "share" comments, seeing as they aren't all something I want to "share". But if they just move the topic up and say "this is a good comment" then I'd be more likely to "share" it.
Did you ever figure out what does happen to a comment when you click the wheel? I haven't been able to figure that out myself.
Yes. Clicking the wheel essentially says "I like this and want others to see it." So when you click it for a submission/link, it "curates" that into a feed for the people following you. For comments, it makes that particular comment show up higher in the list. Similar to an up-vote on reddit.
As a new user, I absolutely agree. It wasn't until I read the FAQ that I found out the hub wheel by comments wasn't sharing the comments. I didn't really want to share comments so, I hadn't upvoted any. Furthermore, I found myself sharing posts too liberally. Anything that wasn't horrible I was sharing again. I ended up going back to unshare a lot of things I had originally shared.