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.