Recently, arguewithatree made mention that she is approaching her 1000th day on Hubski. lil mentioned to her that on your 1000th day, you should do something for Hubski, make a special post etc. She said that at the very least you should answer two questions:
We have a bunch of millenniums running around these parts. Are you one of them? Did we miss your 1000th birthday? I know that we must have missed a bunch all at once because I see that _refugee_ has 1078 days here, as is ButterflyEffect -ya'll likely came over in the same "migration."
Then there is a group that is just shy of the 1000 day mark, demure is at 799 days, as is coffeesp00ns and OftenBen. -My guess is that there are a ton of others in this 799 day area due to another large migration.
We will have to celebrate 201 days from now.
Anyways, who is beyond the 1000 mark? Who is approaching it?
#1. What is an important lesson I've learned from Hubski? Personal Content Isn't A Sin (and you shouldn't feel guilty about it) - One of only 2 posts I have stickied, I keep it permanently stickied to remind me every day. Not too long ago I was feeling embarrassed by the frequency of my Facebook posting (1x a day if I am being talkative). Then I thought, "Sure, so lots of people like to comment they don't post on Facebook because it's so done, but...if no one ever posted anything Facebook would be boring as shit." Websites like Facebook and Hubski need content creators to continue to exist successfully. And people should feel free to share meaningful things they've created with people who might enjoy them, or with people whom they care about and want to share bits of their life with. Toot your own god-damn horn. Maybe someone will like it. (Hubski has also taught me that more people enjoy and like to read my poetry than I dimly expect.) #2. What do I get out of Hubski the most? I am here for and because of the Hubski community and relationships that have developed through my time here. I am not in as frequent touch, or just don't see as much from, all of the users I care about as I used to be, but that is okay. That's life. But what I get out of Hubski is a bunch of people I care about and respect and with whom I want to share my life, my successes and my pitfalls. I want to see their lives. I want to meet up with them and have navel-gazing conversations until last call in strange bars in cities I don't live in. I want to hear about their amazing projects, passions, family lives, romantic lives, and so on. What I "get" from Hubski is a community of generally very brilliant, talented, driven, and/or otherwise super admirable people who I'd never have gotten to know otherwise, and have hands-down the best pseudo- or truly-intellectual conversations of most of my friends when we get together in person too. What drives people to comment and discuss on Hubski is very present when you remove the screen too: inquiring, interested, intelligent minds. So many people on Hubski are truly exceptional in some way. I'm sure it is statistically aberrant. It is also great. And I also really appreciate how many people here like and want to talk about poetry, even though that's an admittedly smaller subset of the population. lil - lil you are one of the people I miss.
Hey look at that, I just passed 1000. Guess I came around the same time as _refugee_ and ButterflyEffect, although obviously I don't quite hang around as much (sadly!). Maybe I'll get reinvolved and come up with something fun to post when I join the 1500 club.
I logged in for the first time yesterday. Does that count? :P
You should juggle 8 balls in honor of a full hubwheel. How many can you juggle at once?
Yep. Not kind to coffee cups either. First day I had them I blew out my favorite coffee cup. Which was filled with coffee on top of a dresser with all of the drawers open a little bit. Lost my favorite coffee cup, scratched my new acrylic, and got coffee on all kinds of things I didn't want coffee on. I called it a "very bad two seconds".
Meriadoc I know you meant to do something and didn't. I also know you haven't been on hubski lately but still
I do miss Meriadoc. I hope you and your family are well pal.
I will be back. I've just been on a general hiatus on internet communities. Just too much work at the office, too much bartending, too much family in town, too much dealing with family to add in my usual brain power for digesting articles and conversation. I've been reading a few books to center myself too. I'm working through Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and The Left Hand of Darkness now that I finally got the chance to finish The Dispossessed. I am generally around daily. I see a bit of what's going on, I follow the movie club, and I see the facebook feeds from the group. Now I don't like kids, but seeing your daughter with the turntable and headphones melted my heart.
yeah i'm friends with all them plus OftenBen and steve and @advancedapes@ and elizabeth and mk (he never posts anything) and I think even more others. nowaypablo I don't know, I try to think I'm funny on Facebook. I think a fun job to have would be to be that guy in the truck who drives around vacuuming up leaves. Just saying. I'm pretty sure I could do that.
Convenient as hell. I like following the world adventures of insomniasexx, the domestic adventures of thenewgreen, and the poetry of _refugee_. I know I'm friends with others here, but I'm not on nearly enough to see other things
Huh, apparently I'm approaching the mark, sort of. 826 days (827 on my first before I decided to go by this name instead). I've contributed almost nothing in that time, though. I pop in on occasion just to read some of the discussions here, and while I "know" a lot of the people here I don't really know them. I have no idea how it's been 800+ days since I signed up though, I figured it was less than half that. Every time I come here, I always think "hey, maybe I should get in and contribute, this place is an awesome community" and then proceed to.. not. Not sure why, I guess I'm not much of a talker and more of someone who just likes to watch everybody else talk and learn about them that way.
1080ish, I forgot as soon as I closed the tab. I'm on and off with activity around here, it usually comes in spurts. The place has changed quite a bit since I joined and I haven't kept up with all the new features and what have you, so I feel even more lost.
I'm on 1567 days. When did that happen? I guess I'll celebrate my 2000th.
I'm almost half way to 1000 days. One day, I will be at 1,000 but not for almost two years.
I got you beat by 12. Where you between the dates of Friday September 2nd and Wednesday September 14 2011?
Welps.. I am at 1500+, but it should really be 500 or so if truth be told. I've been pretty much MIA the fast few years.
Missed it. Maybe I'll do something for three full years since that's at the end of this month.
I think that it may have been posted on reddit. I'm not really sure. I don't think we've had much traffic though, I've only noticed a few new faces.
I think I've counted three from the last 24 hours and 5 from the last week. That isn't too hateful. I did text my bud this morning, asking if he's checked out Hubski yet. He says "Yeah. I was just lurking the other day actually." Then he went on and listed a few prominent conversations. I don't want to be all pushy, but I feel like texting back "Bro. Quit with the pansy ass lurking shit and just sign up already. Lord Mercy."
Yes, get with it! I'm glad that people reach out and invite their friends. I think that is BY FAR the best way to grow the community.
Yeah, I have about four people I know that I think would enjoy this site and vise versa. I'm not nagging any of them about it though. Nagging doesn't really get anyone anywhere. I've also been slipping these boys here and there this holiday season to while I've been shopping for gifts for the family. So to the someone that opens up a copy of Black Science Volume 1 and sees that in the back cover, that was me. You're welcome.
I'll start. As of this post I am 1,764 days old.