Ok, so today Hubski has around 6000 users. It's very small in the scheme of the internet, but it's functioning well and the users are enjoying it. it's a small community, the submitted content is of high quality and groups of friends are seeming to appear.

Now imagine if Hubski had one million users (I hope that one day it will, and expect a lot of them to come from reddit), the site would move a lot faster. You could refresh the Global page and see an entire new selection of submissions. Each tag group would have a lot more content. And I can imagine it would be of lesser quality, but more appealing to a simple mind. The reason for this is that I predict that some, probably many users will begin attempting to 'whore' followers and badges, for the same reason that people karma-whore on reddit; people want to be rewarded by something, and see their stats grow. The way they will do this is by submitting lots of content, but things which take less than ten seconds to look at, agree with, and click the share wheel. Thus getting lots of attention, very quickly, and consequently bringing down the quality of the site.

With all this possibility of bad things to come with growth, the things which have made me dislike Reddit, I hope that Hubski's system of following users rather than categories will eliminate any negative consequences of having a massive amount of users. Also the ignoring system seems to work fairly well. I'm a new user to Hubski but I have high hopes for this place and I will continue to visit. I greatly anticipate its future.

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Also Reddit seems to be a very hot-topic of discussion on Hubski as of late. I hope that it wont always be so relevant.