To answer your questions: 1. WELCOME!
2. More opportunities for interesting content and conversation
3. Do want
4. Great
4a. Nope. Hubksi's current size basically approximates invite-only as it is.
5. Yeah, -ignoring names/domains/tags
6. By being considered and thoughtful in who you follow and engage with. You create your own experience here to a large extent. As an aside, the last time we had a large influx of users, there was definitely some low-brow, low caliber posting and users that wandered in. I only know this because of the global page and users I follow referring to it. Because the people I follow don't repost crap, it never really made it into my experience. If it did, it would have been quite easy to nip in the bud. I also don't care about people talking about other sites like reddit and making comparisons. Everybody had to come from somewhere. While Hubski is it's own thing, let new users compare it and find that out out loud. I'll say it again: WELCOME NEW USERS