The anticipation is killing me.
Edit: Finally did it. I can edit community tags now. Happy day!
STOP COUNTING. Seriously. It's not a high score, it's an odometer; the more you roll it over the more aged and worn out you are. I wouldn't even be here if it weren't for you meddling kids; I'd thrown up my hands for the 3rd time over the problems with the place until I discovered I'd gained like 150 followers overnight and knew it'd be a DRAMA letdown if I didn't dance like a trained monkey. That said, I know that the thing that will ruin this place faster than image macros is karma hunters. Say what you want to say because you want to say it and don't reward things that don't deserve rewarding.
It's not so much counting karma, it's that I want to be able to edit community tags! Someone told me you can't do that until you get your first hubwheel, so I've been concentrating on doing that ever since. What problems, specifically?I'd thrown up my hands for the 3rd time over the problems with the place until I discovered I'd gained like 150 followers overnight and knew it'd be a DRAMA letdown if I didn't dance like a trained monkey.
That's weird. Dunno. Sometimes finding features on Hubski is like playing Riven. Specifically Hubski is set up more like Tumblr or Wordpress than Reddit or Digg, in that it's all about who you follow and it's very provider-centric, but that mk feels he will make Baby Jesus cry if he gives providers the basic and fundamental options of being able to shut trolls the fuck up on content they provided. RANT ON There are assholes all over the Internet. There are assholes on Youtube, there are assholes on Facebook, there are assholes on Myspace, there are assholes on Reddit, and yes, Virginia, there are assholes on Hubski. Should you post something on Facebook that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down. Should you post something on Myspace that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down. Should you post something on Youtube that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down. Should you post something on Wordpress that attracts assholes, you can swat those assholes down. Should you post something on Reddit - well, you're fucked. You can delete it. But then, you didn't post it to your own private subreddit or else you could just kick out the assholes. You posted it to /r/AssholeConvergence, which is known for hosting assholes. Yeah, you could post it to /r/PrivateIdaho which is all your own, but the mere existence of /r/PrivateIdaho is reason enough for the mob to burn you at the stake. So those are the ground rules. You are not a man, you are a number. Dance, monkey. Hubski, on the other hand... Post something and attract assholes and you're fucking stuck with it. Can you delete your post? Yeah, but then mk, thenewgreen and half of the Motor City Meatheads get a case of the vapours about how you're destroying information. Mention that Hubski's architecture is highly refined for trolling and get "we've had no problems with trolls as of yet." Point out that Hubski's last big influx of users was the CIRCLEJERKERS following you over from Reddit and that MK had to hand-censor a lot of their trolling and get "that was an isolated incident." Act in a deliberately inflammatory fashion (like, say, calling foul on the half-dozen meatheads arguing that everyone who works in Hollywood deserves to starve because fuck them...on something you linked... that they found because they follow you...and you've made exactly zero secret of the fact you work in hollywood and have, in fact, answered direct question from some of the aforementioned meatheads about Hollywood in the past) and you're "deliberately spoiling the system" or some such shit. The real problem comes from the following facts: 1) Passion engenders affinity
2) Passion engenders enmity
3) Psychologically, one criticism has the same payload as five equal compliments ...and everyone who provides all your best content will burn out eventually because one asshole counts as much as five nice people. Add to that the fact that "ignore" doesn't silence anyone's comments, add to that the fact that you can't keep someone from following you, add to that the fact that neither TheNewGreen or MK understand just.how.shitty it can be to try and share something only to have eight hundred people calling you niggerfagjewcunt and threatening your wife's life and you end up with a site that has a lot of potential, has a lot of lovely people, and has the seeds of its own destruction sewn and germinating. RANT OFF those problems, specifically.I want to be able to edit community tags! Someone told me you can't do that until you get your first hubwheel, so I've been concentrating on doing that ever since.
What problems, specifically?
Very interesting. That was actually a suggestion I had been mulling over recently, essentially giving the OP of the thread moderator privileges in their own threads. For example, the ability to ban a specific user from commenting in your threads (a borderline spammer, for instance, or a concern troll). I'm surprised that the subject has already been discussed in the past. I guess I'll just have to see what happens. I have a lot of enemies on reddit as well (it comes with being an active moderator, I guess), so it will be interesting to see how the administration here handles it when it inevitably occurs.Specifically Hubski is set up more like Tumblr or Wordpress than Reddit or Digg, in that it's all about who you follow and it's very provider-centric, but that mk feels he will make Baby Jesus cry if he gives providers the basic and fundamental options of being able to shut trolls the fuck up on content they provided.
This is coming. Soon you wil lbe able to keep a specific user from commenting on your posts. There are a few other significant changes that are coming with this. kleinbl00, you will be able to keep us Motor City Meatheads out of your Hubski. :)That was actually a suggestion I had been mulling over recently, essentially giving the OP of the thread moderator privileges in their own threads.
It wasn't this influx of users. If you recall, I gave you a heads-up regarding it in a PM a couple of weeks ago. Actually, I brought it up for discussion about six months ago while you were on hiatus. I'm not against everything you like.
Huh. re-reading the PMs again it's a little more clear. Let's see what you do with it. Having been accused for the better part of four years of being a "power user" (on a site where nobody really is) it'll be interesting to watch the social dynamic on a site where "power users" are 99% of the experience.
>Having been accused for the better part of four years of being a "power user" (on a site where nobody really is) it'll be interesting to watch the social dynamic on a site where "power users" are 99% of the experience. I always thought the backlash against "power users" (whatever that means) on reddit was absolutely fucking ridiculous. According to the average redditor, a power user is someone who... uses reddit a lot. I think. If that's the case... what's the big deal? "Power users" make or break a community. They are the ones submitting new posts. They are the ones commenting on the threads. They are the 10% who are essentially creating all of the content that the other 90% consumes. They are the ones moderating those communities to make sure the trash and spam never see the light of day. I like hubski because it makes that user dynamic very clear from the start. The content on your feed is determined by the users you follow. It's blatantly obvious that the "power users" are the ones making your hubski experience an enjoyable one. Not to mention, if you don't like what the power users have to say, fuck them, don't follow them, don't comment on their posts. Follow the people you like, and your hubski experience will reflect that.
Where Power Users Come From Reddit's creators did a piss-poor job of explaining what karma does. They did this, I think, because if it was fundamentally obvious that it did nothing they feared it wouldn't incentivize the proles. And, as Reddit's model is based on the power of link aggregation, the "game" everyone wants to play serves Reddit better if they favor link karma over comment karma. There's nothing that anyone can see about a Reddit user easily beyond their name and their scores. So, names and scores become the coin of the realm - assuming you care about the game. As the majority of Redditors don't understand just how easily the game is played, and as they've been on for a few months and have yet to crack 10k comment karma, and as the more time they spend on Reddit the less human and proud of themselves they feel, they naturally presume that anyone who "Reddits better than they do" is 1) a neckbeard loser 2) a cheater. Combine that with the fact that Reddit's culture is such that if you "reddit well" and don't moderate something, you aren't doing your "civic duty." So now the neckbeard losers and cheaters are rigging the game. Obviously they're here to keep citizens down. Obviously they're committing all sorts of fraudulent malfeasance in order to have such high scores. And obviously, since their name is on the right hand side every time you click on comments, they have "power." What makes it even worse is that the responsibilities and abilities of moderators is poorly understood by the rank and file and rarely explained by the staff. So the godlike powers of moderators are presumed extant by the average user, to the point where they get pissed off if you don't use your nonexistent powers to improve their user experience. Into that gap jump a whole bunch of people who really just want the website to be cooler, but the website gives them exactly zero tools to accomplish it. So what do they do? 1) they collude. 2) they write up blacklists. 3) they gather in private subreddits where the proles can't watch them. 4) They become much closer to other moderators than they do to the people whose content they moderate. 5) Moderators end up going full Stanford Prison Experiment where the imaginary line between "moderator" and "user" is enough to excuse dehumanizing, disrespectful behavior, which exudes from the very pores of the majority of the moderator class. In short, Reddit's code makes no provision for power users, but Reddit's functionality requires power users, so Reddit conjures power users from the aether. "Reddit has no power users" was true until No Pics Day. After that, the plebe/prole divide on Reddit became stark. I'll bring this up again - your entire SFWPorn network is deliberately hostile to the average user. You excuse this by saying "well become a moderator." But what about people who just want to submit pictures? Your solution is "enforce the rules so that you can bend the rules." In effect, you're saying "become a power user." I don't think you thought of it that way, and I think that's why we've come to blows over it so much. There are lots of people on the earth who are not uncomfortable with authority. I'm not one of them. I strenuously dislike having to say "mother may I" before I do anything, and I deeply resent having the ruling be subject to arbitrary whim. Nonetheless, that structure - "dance for the moderators such that they may grant you a boon" - is the backbone of Reddit. And it pisses a lot of people off. Reddit users hate moderators for the same reason they hate movie studios, they hate record labels, they hate cable companies. Moderators don't give anything - they take. Theirs is a reductive contribution - the best thing they can do is separate the wheat from the chaff. The problem is that there is no USDA guide to delineate "wheat" from "chaff" and on the Internet, someone is going to have a different opinion from you always. Combine that with a website where the most fundamental thing you can do is "vote" and it stinks of tyranny. It stinks to high heaven. The guys who understand the system? Power users. The guys who run afoul of the system? Rank and file. et voila. Instant hatred. If you really wanna see how bad it is, go start a new Reddit account. Don't tell anyone who you are. Using only the information presented to you in what is readily obvious from your front page, submit a link. Now message a mod to get it out of the spam filter that you're invariably in. Now wait for them to release it. Now watch it die anyway because the Nights of the New hate everyone. Now wait a day and watch the very post that you submitted 24 hours ago jump up to 3000 points in /r/pics because ALL_CAPS_UNDERSCORE_OBSCENITY with eleventy million points just sailed right through the very gauntlet you don't even understand yet. You'd hate syncretic, too. You'd hate all of them. Now imagine if you knew that four of the top 20 accounts on there were group accounts. Reddit didn't used to have power users, yet it persisted in hating them. As a result, Reddit conjured power users to hate… and they are worse than anything Reddit could have imagined.
This is fascinating. I'd never though of moderators as required power users, but that's exactly what they are. To be honest I hadn't thought much at all about reddit's structure until recently. Having said that, you are angry about this. You sound furious, and I only partially understand why. I assume you've been a mod on Reddit, and obviously your involvement in it and passion for these kinds of sites fuels that anger, but I really wanna know what it's directed towards. You tend to be right (by which I mean I tend to agree with your points) but I'm never particularly upset by them.
Separating the world into "us" and "them" allows "us" to do terrible things to "them" with a clear conscience. On Reddit, "They" are the ones who keep things running for the benefit of "us." And because that line goes uncontested, "us" doing horrible things to "them" is a spectator sport. I once told someone that his post did not abide by the rules of a subreddit devoted to "favors". My mistake was I did so impolitely. I couldn't say anything without a hundred downvotes and dozens of hatemail PMs for several weeks. All in good fun, though, right? I mean, why would I bother establishing a subreddit devoted to helping people out if I didn't want to be called a niggerfag jewcunt by every knuckle-dragger on the Internet for refusing someone the option to ask for several hundred dollars' worth of design work for free? Particularly when a few of the designers in that subreddit were homeless so what did they stand to lose?
I see what you mean- if you're doing something which is mildly unpopular on a place where you can't ignore people and there's 0 cost to communicate then when the community grows so does the absolute number of people who hate you. That is an extremely reasonable concern, especially considering your popularity on both sites. Have you had any trouble like that on Hubski? I know that you and mk don't agree on everything, but it doesn't seem much like he's ruining your experience of the site on a daily basis.
Alright. I'm glad I'm following you. You're pretty on top of things.
Quite honestly, that's by design. There is a learning curve, a barrier to entry. If you want to submit in our network, you need to read the sidebar, read the FAQ, and even then, it's still largely subjective in a lot of cases which subreddit a picture "belongs in"... so users submit, they get their image removed, and most likely have a conversation with a mod about it. Usually several conversations until they get the hang of things. The users who are hostile about it - who cares? No, seriously. I ban them and move on. There are two million redditors and only a few of them willing to put in the blood sweat and witchhunts necessary to be a good moderator. If you cuss out one of my mods because they asked you to post your image in a different subreddit, you are less than dirt to me. I've been through it too many times - we all have, really, any experienced moderator - that at this point, if the user isn't willing to play ball, they can go back to /r/pics for all I care. The SFWPorn Network is designed to do two things - showcase pretty pictures, and breed moderators. If you never submit an image, like 99% of the userbase, you will be perfectly happy. When you cross that barrier into a submitter, and you do it frequently, the system is designed so that eventually, you will most likely become a network moderator... and it's very effective at it. Of course, not everyone wants the responsibility, and that's fine. The small class of users who want to submit things but don't want to read the rules or listen to the mods... they may as well not exist for all I care. As you know well, I used to view reddit through rose-colored glasses. After almost two years of moderating, I don't anymore. Since the defaults have blown up, it seems like most redditors are crude, vulgar 14 year olds who would sooner call you a faggot than thank you for anything.I'll bring this up again - your entire SFWPorn network is deliberately hostile to the average user.
Twice your moderators have PM'd me to answer questions about photography raised by users in their subreddits. Three times they've asked me to cross-post my work to other subreddits. Yet I refuse to play because this: Is condescending, insulting and derogatory and I won't stand for it. You aren't judging my ability as a photographer, you're judging my ability to abide by your arbitrary taxonomy. You're judging my ability to cowtow to mad hatters. You're seeing how high I jump when you shout at me because you see shouting at me as your privilege. Who cares? The moderators in your network that wish I was still submitting. Here's a lake your network will never see: Not because I don't think it's worthy, but because I don't think your network is.even then, it's still largely subjective in a lot of cases which subreddit a picture "belongs in"... so users submit, they get their image removed, and most likely have a conversation with a mod about it.
And that's the point where I usually say, "Feel free to unsubscribe." I built /r/EarthPorn up from nothing. I grew a network that began as three scrawny subreddits with only a few thousand subscribers between them into the quality photography powerhouse that it is today, with 40+ subreddits, hundreds of frequent submitters and several hundred thousand users. /r/EarthPorn will have 200,000 subscribers very soon. It became that large and successful because I promoted the hell out of it, and ran it with an iron fist from day 1. There are no polls, there is no community outreach, you do what the moderators say, or you can leave. Most of our users like it that way. The ones that don't, well... they left.Is condescending, insulting and derogatory and I won't stand for it.
Have done. Good riddance. Here's the part you're missing: you're overseeing a subreddit ostensibly dedicated to sharing images, but your core mission is actually "censor images." Your core skills are "talk about images" and "classify images" and your highest-ranking images are generally not OC. Because Corbis or Getty aren't half the dicks you are. And /r/DoesAnybodyElse will have 160,000, despite the fact that their charter is essentially "kill the subreddit." In other words, your "growth" is only marginally better than a group of people dedicated to killing growth. And here's the amazing thing. Flickr is dead. Instagram is masturbatory lo-fi. Deviantart is teen sketches of Manga. Yet somehow you've managed to keep the SFWPorn network from becoming THE imaging community for the Internet even as /r/IAmA lands Obama. Do you think they have any less of an iron fist than you do? I don't. I think they're less arbitrary. So keep patting yourself on the back. But when your goalposts are "we've had less explosive growth than Reddit as a whole" I think you need to recognize that even grading on the curve, you're falling far short of success. exactly.And that's the point where I usually say, "Feel free to unsubscribe."
/r/EarthPorn will have 200,000 subscribers very soon
The ones that don't, well... they left.
A lot of that has to do with the name. The majority of redditors use reddit during work or school. Lots of work and school networks block anything with the word "Porn" in it. There are other reasons, such as our refusal to worship imgur (anything rehosted is removed). That's all irrelevant, though. I don't think you understand how I moderate most of my subreddits. In subreddits like /r/TheoryOfReddit, where the community was essentially handed to me, I take my mod duties very seriously. We discuss every rule change long and hard, we get community feedback, and we have a very large mod team for a moderately sized subreddit, meaning more community representation. I feel like I have a responsibility there. If I didn't, I wouldn't have accepted the moderator position. Not to mention, that subreddit is actually productive. It isn't just devoted to eye candy or humor. Most of my subreddits, however, are subreddits that I created myself. They did not exist before I typed their name into the "create a subreddit" box and hit submit. I'm talking about subreddits like /r/EarthPorn and /r/reactiongifs. They are also usually "low-effort content" subreddits... images. It started when I used to browse /r/pics on a daily basis. I got sick of the chaos, and I started to create subreddits that would siphon off one type of image or another, either to improve /r/pics by removing crap (/r/reactiongifs), or to filter out the good content so I didn't have to wade through the memes and image macros that dominated /r/pics at the time (The SFWPorn Network). I made the rules exactly how I wanted them, and I submitted the type of content I wanted to see there, and I added the mods that I wanted to add there. Reddit policy is that mods are gods in their own subreddits, and the top mod is Zeus, so I acted accordingly. They are essentially moderator playgrounds, and the subscribers are free to come and go as they please. Sure, we all want to see the subreddit thrive, but we also want to have fun doing so. That's very important. No one's getting paid. If you aren't having fun, why bother? As you know, getting called a niggerface jewcunt isn't fun, so we ban those people. And then if they send a mod mail cussing us out even more, we reply in nothing but reaction gifs. That, my friend, is fun. I never wanted The SFWPorn Network to be THE imaging community on the internet. I wanted it to do exactly what it's doing now - provide "eye candy" images in various categories for easy consumption. That's it. When I go to /r/EarthPorn I want to see a landscape - not a waterscape, not a cityscape, not some abandoned farmhouse. I want to see a natural landscape. If I wanted to see those other things I'd go to /r/WaterPorn or /r/CityPorn or /r/AbandonedPorn. If a moderator thinks a picture is in the wrong category, they remove it. If we could simply move it to another subreddit, we would, but you know that getting the mod tools we need from the admins is like pulling teeth. I doubt it will ever happen so we work with what we have. The SFWPorn Network is a nice little package, all wrapped up in a bow, designed to be mostly bot-moderated, with human mods simply 'moving' submissions that they feel are categorized incorrectly. We aren't catering to the submitters here, we're catering to the consumers. You see, I know how I could make The SFWPorn Network become THE imaging community on the internet. Remove all the rules about categories, and as long as it's serious photography (aka no memes/image macros), and vaguely related to the subject at all, it would be allowed. We wouldn't bother requiring the resolution in the title or any of the other weird rules. It would be /r/pics split into subcategories. In fact... wasn't that your suggestion in the first place?
Nope. My suggestion was to come up with rules that people could follow without playing "mother may I" because your dick gets hard telling people what to do. And we've probably spent ten thousand words on this and you still steadfastly refuse to see the fact that insisting people abide by your god-given right to be an arbitrary dick is what makes people hate moderators.
We have rules in the sidebar, we enforce those rules, and we're perfectly polite about it. If you disagree with those rules, that's fine, you can go start your own landscape photography subreddit and see how that does for ya. The fact that we've spent 10,000 words discussing this is proof that I was willing to listen to what you had to say about it. You didn't really suggest any solutions to any problems, you just bitched about the ones we had come up with. I really don't know where you want this discussion to go. One minute we were talking about power users and the next minute you were ranting about the SFWPorn Network.
The two are inextricably tied. I ask for "give me rules I can follow" and I get "I am Zeus and if I want you to have to interact personally with a moderator every time you want to post, you'll bloody well do it because moderators have absolute power." If you don't see a link - and if you don't see that every bit of enmity you've ever engendered has been wholly due to your attitude - you are beyond help.
Careful with this, it seems like it applies a first-to-file like control over content submission. If my nemesis and I both want to share an article, and he submits it before I do, he has all the rights to completely exclude me from the conversation, not just with him, but with all of hubski on the matter.Soon you wil lbe able to keep a specific user from commenting on your posts.
I've fought for it for a year. I've gotten varying shades of "we'll have to agree to disagree." It's extraordinarily easy to reach a point on Hubski were you go fuck these people. I owe them nothing and go do something useful and productive with your life. Say what you will about the downvote arrow, it feels really goddamn good to be able to hit a "fuck you" button and move the fuck on.
I'm unsure how dependent the latter is on the former...but can we characterize the first half of that as a bug already? I don't care if we have distinct: "Ignore shares" and "Ignore comments", but generally it takes a display of stupid to earn an ignore from me, and I would prefer to be able to screen out all content from those individuals. I could accept a "hate scale", ranking my ignorance from shared posts to comments directly in reply to my own. I could accept a checkbox. But as soon as hubski's size grows beyond a collection of people who all at least vaguely know each other (Through internet or real life), I feel proper curating tools are necessary to maintain a pleasant experience.Add to that the fact that "ignore" doesn't silence anyone's comments, add to that the fact that you can't keep someone from following you...
Yes, one thing that struck me as odd is that ignored users are highlighted in red in the comments section. That seems very counter intuitive to me. "Hey, I know you told me you don't want to see anything else from this user, so I highlighted their comments in red so you notice them quicker!"
If you do want to ignore users comments you can use my greasemonkey script to hide them. Unfortunately it won't stop them from showing up in your inbox if they reply to you or mention you.
Agreed. mk and I have discussed this and there's no reason that you should be visually drawn to the users you least wish to engage. Great suggestion, thanks.
"This guy. this fuckin' guy. Here he is. See him? Fuck this guy. Read what he has to say. Because you're ignoring him." My impression of the basis of this is that I was one of the first people to come to Hubski not because I knew anyone involved in it but because it came recommended (by either drunken_jedi or doug3465; can't remember which). As such, the basic courtesy of overlooking your friends' faux pas was not extended to me. Amongst MK and crew, Hubski was a friendly and congenial group of like-minded people with one, two or three degrees of history; for me, it was just another online community I needed to learn. The "combat" functionality I find essential in order to stay on the battlefield simply isn't something you need when Hubski is your secondary connection to people. As your primary one, however, there simply aren't the back channels and avenues to forgiveness and affinity within the architecture itself.
I'd say one way to remove the "karma whore" mentality is to remove seeing how many badges a person has earned (not received). Only show how many they've given away.
Still a number/level/exp counter. Still relevant to what people think of what you post. Why not just do the badges you have left? It then becomes kind of like money, in that you might really want to reward a comment and have to earn the badge, but otherwise just lets you know something about your capabilities in the future/present, not some vanity points from the past.
You're right, of course. But it's human nature, it seems, to see a number (or a representation of one) next to one's name, perform some action, see it go up, and then feel compelled to carry on pushing it that way. Abstracting it to "hubwheels" doesn't stop that, though it might help.
And here' where I must respectfully disagree. This is one aspect I think mk and thenewgreen got exactly right. Perhaps, on some level, "badges earned" matters. To me, though, "badges given" matters oh so very much more. Something the Reddit crew never understood is that "amassing karma" is a bad thing according to scripture. You want to keep away from karma as much as possible. So for me, yeah, the wheel spins round'n'round but every time it goes around again, I owe the universe a badge. I went to bed owing three fewer badges than what I woke up with. It's a very different way of looking at things: on Reddit, you want your karma to climb (why? I could get into exactly how useless karma is; my position hasn't changed much since 2010). Hubski, you want to keep your karma flat. If the system is praising you, get out there and find something within the system worth praising. I'm not proud of the "15" under my name, I'm embarrassed by it. It's a measure of karmic debt.
That's an excellent explanation; thank you. I particularly like the notion of the wheel spinning "round'n'round", rather than a total being added-up somewhere. Perhaps that'll help me see Hubski for what it can be. However, I still think that there's the risk, if the site exploded in popularity, that this wouldn't be widely-comprehended.
There's got to be something wrong with the system. I've been here 5 days and have filled up 1 hubwheel and have six dots toward the second. You've been here 484 days and have yet to fill up one? How is it based? Do any of us know?
Like mk said, there's a bit of special sauce in the mix. I don't really know myself, but I'll tell you what I think is going on. Momentum. If you click on syncretic's name, you'll see two key stats: posts per day and posts shared per day. As I write, his are 0.12 and 0.36 respectively. Yours, on the other hand, are 2.67 and 3.18 respectively. Et voila. You've been more steadily and consistently active, burning rubber and spinning wheels. EDIT: Another thing that is perhaps paramount to sharing and posting is actually being shared. Submit good content, make it easy for people to want to share it, and the rest will follow.
Well, I have fallen in love with this site and would greatly credit it to my most consistent happiness for a while. Momentum is a good word for it.
I've definitely been going hard haha. Classes start tomorrow so my momentum is going to downhill unfortunately. But I hope to continue stirring the pot and getting minds moving (mine included). EDIT: I just got another dot.
mk also said that comments have more weight than posts. I tend to post and share far more than comment, so that might be it. I often enjoy starting discussions on a given topic and then reading them more than actually participating in the discussion myself, I'm not sure why.
Nothing wrong with that. It's always fascinating reading others have to say, thoughts you've never had. It's invigorating. Do you know how much weight is given to people posting in one's threads?
careful. you'll start to get dots on the brain! :) glad to hear you're digging the place. rest assured, we'll be here whenever you decide to stop by. hubski is a better place with people like you in it Mr. Castle. do good in school.
If that's the case, I really wish it would be based on short-term momentum instead of long-term momentum. AKA, you earn dots quicker when you are active, and slower when you aren't. I'd hate to have over a year of near-total inactivity to count against me forever. mk, could you weigh in on this?
What you're describing seems to me exactly what I was getting at. I bet if you try a good two hours of sharing, posting, and commenting, you would start to see things turn your way. Besides, the more one posts, the better the chances become that they'll be shared. I don't want to suggest that you, or anyone else, should do this willy nilly though. I say, if it isn't in your nature to post and share lots of stuff - then so be it.
One thing I really enjoy doing is finding something in one community, sharing it with another, and then comparing the discussion that results. It absolutely fascinates me. With that in mind, I've become exceedingly good at crossposting things between different subreddits, so it's not that much of a leap to continuously share things with the hubski community as I find them in my daily redditing. Right now I'm pretty much dividing my online time 50/50 between reddit and hubski, which is impressive if you know how heavily invested I am into reddit.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect it's related to how many posts you share, how many other people share them, how many comments you 'like', and how many of yours are 'liked' by others. Just speculating. I'm betting that although he's been here 484 days, he hasn't shared and commented very much - at least not as much as you have.
Well, I made an account over a year ago (I think soon after hubski was first created) because I saw kleinbl00 mention it somewhere on reddit. I posted a few things, shared a few things, but for the most part lost interest because I couldn't really get the hang of it. I did, however, create /r/hubski on reddit because I thought the fledgling social network had potential, and I added kleinbl00 and fangolo as mods (/u/fangolo is mk's reddit account). kleinbl00 and I didn't really do anything with the subreddit, but mk posted regular blog updates, and every so often throughout the year, I would notice that I still modded /r/hubski, and I would venture back over to hubski and do a few things before losing interest again. Just a few days before my /r/TheoryOfReddit post, I rediscovered hubski yet again, but this time something just clicked. I don't know if it was the redesign, or the addition of hashtags, but I finally "got it" - and I instantly knew I wanted to attract more users. It was like all of the potential of this place flashed before my eyes, and I wanted to see hubski thrive so I can witness that potential become a reality. I obviously structured the TOR post so that it revolved around hubski. I did want to discuss potential reddit alternatives, but hubski is just clearly the only threat to reddit on the horizon - its creator is a redditor, and it combines elements of both reddit and twitter. It's only natural that users who are experienced with reddit would be interested in hubski as well. The thread already popular in TOR when I noticed kleinbl00 had left a great comment (he always has such a way with words that I could never duplicate), so I submitted it to /r/bestof, and went to bed. I was absolutely thrilled when I woke up to see how successful the thread had been (hitting the front page of /r/all!) and when mk told me over a thousand new users had joined. I have since moved from a "casual" hubski user to a "frequent" hubski user ;) I'd say about 90% of my posts and comments have been made in the last week or so. Even though my account is old, in many ways I am a new user as well.
It was that post that brought me here, but and I am so thankful. You have no idea how much happiness area Stick cussion here has brought me. I really do hope this place remains as holy as it is and doesn't get flooded with cats and cynical sarcastic assholes (trolls).
Not quite sure, but up until his post on r/theoryofreddit last week syncretic didn't post much at all here.
Comment on my latest submission - that should help move you along! :- )
no no - I just wanted to help you get your last dot (tee hee) - just checked your bio. Congrats on entering teaching... there are a few of us here incl JakobVirgil I believe - not sure who else. When school starts again, please write occasionally about your classes/joys/challenges - I'll watch out for it.
I was only kidding. I love my class, and I definitely plan on posting about my experiences there. I don't have a degree, yet, though... just on-the-job training here and the Early Childhood Education classes my boss sends me to every now and again. I have some college classes, but I dropped out when the economy crashed and my parents could no longer afford to help pay for it, and then it sort of took a back burner when my wife became pregnant with my daughter. I am definitely planning on going back to school, though, especially now that it will be so easy to get financial aid (since I have a child). I actually drive a shuttle bus as well. I'm with the kids for breakfast, then I take them to school, then I have two groups of kindergartners during the day (one before their half day of school, and one after), then I pick up the rest of the kids from school, we have snack and have fun for the rest of the day until their parents pick them up. I love my job. Early Childhood Education is really a different ballpark than the public education system. We're taught to teach through play, and to foster individuality and heavy emphasis on giving the child choices. For instance, instead of "You must sit in a desk and only speak when you raise your hand and are called upon," it's more like, "You can come to the art center and paint your own fantasy world map, or you can go to the blocks center and help that group finish the skyscraper they're working on, or you can continue to throw a fit and sit there on the wall until you calm your body down and apologize. Those are your choices, please pick one." I also get to go on a ton of field trips, including a trip to the pool for four hours every Friday during the summer. We go sledding in the winter, there's a hill on our playground. Yesterday we brought in buckets of snow for our sensory table and made little igloos. It's a blast.no no - I just wanted to help you get your last dot (tee hee)
Congrats on entering teaching... there are a few of us here incl JakobVirgil I believe - not sure who else. When school starts again, please write occasionally about your classes/joys/challenges - I'll watch out for it.
Well, I did create /r/reactiongifs. In all seriousness, I used the #chat tag because I was bored, couldn't sleep and just wanted to chat with someone. Feel free to ignore that tag if you don't want to see this type of discussion in your feed. It won't be a regular thing from me by any means.