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kleinbl00  ·  4311 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A reddit admin on tags

    By providing features to follow tags, hubski is encouraging people to build public communities around tags, which will inevitably decline as their population expands.

Rather than building a culture of power users. Speaking as one, that's a major win for the site.

Those of us with 500+ followers will always wield more influence than someone like you simply because we've got a head start. Any time Hubski gets mentioned on Reddit, I'm inundated with followers - you aren't.

I also don't see what's wrong with building a community around a tag - there isn't a lot of reason for me to follow #Detroit, but since people I follow follow #Detroit I get to see anything worthwhile (to me) anyway.