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user-inactivated  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 15, 2015

Any kind of cullture has to be maintained though.





humanodon  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For it to continue. In real life this is done through things like tradition, common history, food, language and family. Other than, "welcome to hubski! did you check the primer page?" and "lurk moar!" what can we do? Take everyone by the hand and show them how we've been doing things?

Sounds exhausting to me, but cheers to anyone who has been trying to maintain the site culture.

user-inactivated  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Keep participating. Welcome people who are doing it right. Give the cold shoulder to people who are doing it wrong. Don't feed the trolls. Eventually some people decide this isn't the community for them, some decide this is the community for them, and the trolls realize they're foaming at mouth in an empty room. It's a fragile thing and stops working if an overwhelming number of people want to come recreate reddit, but I don't think we're anywhere near that point.

rinx  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They could turn it into an invite only site. People can leave their email address then be waitlisted for a week or two before they join. Would enforce lurking and they could use it to throttle new users.