I can relate to everything you're saying here. I'll admit the askhubski post I made about sharing was really more of an attempt to make a disguised PSA to new members on how to use sharing on the site. There's been a flood of activity that is not necessarily enriching the Hubski experience. I feel bad for saying it but that's what I think.

The problem isn't new users, but when a bunch of new users come at once from one source they bring their own community instead of becoming part of Hubski's.

Hubski's architecture is designed so that you can build your own experience. That's really being put to the test now. That's good though because we can learn some stuff from it to make the site better. Right now there's a couple things I think could be improved mk: ignoring needs to be more refined: I'd like to see separate ignoring for users posts and user comments. I'd also like to see the ability to put a user on a sort of "probation", as in ignore them for a month. There's users I'm tempted to ignore but only as they get acclimated to the site, not forever. If I ignore them I'll just forget about it or be unable to discern who I want to ignore permanently from those who were just in "probation".