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.