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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3784 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski PSA: Reply-alerts and comment-alerts have been combined

...because the functionality everyone wants is on Reddit but the functionality everyone decries is everywhere else. You don't provide an example in the negative to prove a positive point:

"Why can't I have flan at this Chinese restaurant?"

"Because it's not a Mexican restaurant, it's a Chinese restaurant. That's why there are chopsticks at your plate."

"But we're at PF Chang's, not Pick Up Sticks! Chopsticks anger me! Where's my flan?"

If Person C wants Person B's opinion on something, he should probably shout Person B out, rather than waiting for the stars to align.





user-inactivated  ·  3784 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ...because the functionality everyone wants is on Reddit

And that's the problem. Everyone here is constantly making this an us vs. them, a mute vs unmute. There are multiple opinions here it's not two sided.

I hate reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Hubski is the closest I have found to something tolerable, and it's not that far away from it which is why I'm trying to defend some basic ideas.

    "Why can't I have flan at this Chinese restaurant?"

This is completely asinine. This is a user submitted social link posting and discussion site, so is reddit, so is Facebook. Twitter is not, it's completely different due to text restrictions and such. Yes this site has a lot in common with it due to tags and user following, but I would say del.icio.us is even closer, just add commenting to it.

If we were comparing say Slashdot to Hubski, that would be a good instance of you saying we are comparing apples to oranges, but people aren't.