SUGGESTION: Every time we have a large influx of users complaining how Reddit is going downhill and is doomed and so on and so forth, we link them to all previous submissions that state the say thing. With special emphasis on the conspiracy one. On-topic: This is an interesting idea, but if a lot of people were to start using it it might serve to create a self-perpetuating culture among new users when we get a bombardment of them. Oh and I enjoy watching you occasionally deconstruct people so I'm a bit biased.
This, in my mind, is the highest calling of the primer page and the tag #newtohubski. To make the culture and not-reddit-ness of the site immediately apparent, and to connect those new users with one another, in a mutual understanding of 'It's fine if I post, but I have to understand what, and why I'm posting.' Also 'Why a circle-dot is not an upvote' and 'Why a hubski tag is not a subreddit' but those come second to content.create a self-perpetuating culture among new users
are the primer pages and noob links immediately imposed on a new user? How do we guarantee they get the message? Maybe this is a question for thenewgreen, hate to tag you I'm sure you've got way too much on your plate right now.
hate to tag you
-No worries, it's a good question. When you joined you should have had a tutorial. That's about what we have at this point. That said, steve is currently in the works on an intro video and we will have links to the primer page at the end of the video.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. As a sidebar, did you know that Aunt Jemima was a post-Bellum stock character from Minstrel shows, whose structure bears more than a passing resemblance to Commedia Dell'Arte (though turned on its head) which I still haven't written about.
I was thinking something similar about the self perpetuating culture, I don't want to find Hubski becoming segregated when a large enough influx of users comes in to create their own "corner" of the site. But I do think a temporary opt-in ignore function for those of us who don't want to deal with #askhubski becoming askreddit for a few days would be beneficial as a possible solution. I would be happy with something to that effect that only becomes active when a large amount of users join in a certain time frame.