What behaviour would cause you to mute/filter someone, what sort of person would you rather not listen to?
Also know as, "Stirring Shit" by caelum19 ;) I have 10 people filtered. Some of them I get along fine with and enjoy talking to (especially in IRC) - the content they share simply isn't up my alley. Some of them infuriate me, even if I agree 9/10 times - that one time usually causes sparks. I'm far more likely to filter out URLs and Tags. For instance, I have c4ss.org filtered out, because every time I read an article from it, I feel as though I lose 20 IQ points. I also have the sexism, feminism, and queer tags filtered out. Despite being both gay, and a supporter of women's rights (equal rights) - these tags almost always contain things that irritate me, and are almost always used by incredibly sensitive people, and I'm an incredibly insensitive person. I only have two people muted: that guy who keeps posting about the Fed Reserve, and a guy who posted on a comment of mine a few weeks ago and infuriated me because of his (I assume) stupidity: don't insult my friends, don't call them murderers.
Haha, I should write a book and call it that... It would be about 70% of my posts on Hubski. I visited c4ss.org and yeah... The sub-titles on that "slideshow" at the top are incredibly dumb. Atleast they interviewed someone called "Patrick Cockburn", which helps.
Also known as, "Stirring Shit" by caelum19
I only have two people muted: that guy who keeps posting about the Fed Reserve...
Is he a conspiracy nut or something? I'm suprised more consipracy nuts don't visit hubski.
On the whole, myself. For every effortless, throwaway one-liner I feel bubbling up in me, I try to allow barely one in twenty go. As I feel more comfortable around here that ratio is falling but I'm fighting the urge. I'd rather not pepper the environment with droll but ultimately empty chatter as it's all too easy for that to replace a reply that requires more effort of me and in a funny way I feel it generates a feedback loop which lowers the overall approach I take to anything in life. Likewise, I am sometimes moved to a longer reply in certain threads around here which I even begin, before stepping away from, since I recognise my motivation in writing them is either founded in a knee-jerk (heart-jerk?) emotional reaction or have been provoked by some narcissistic self-delusion that there's something else wrong on the internet that I must correct. I've been reading Will Storr's 'The Heretics' of late and it's a surprisingly personal and honest account of a journalist's encounter with his own presumptions. More and more I find myself checking my own self-assurances and one way to do this is to shut up first. I think my underlying goal is to become the sort of person I rather would listen to. I hope I'll get somewhere with it.
I don't mute anyone that is actively on the site. I filter a few people but it has nothing to do with me not liking them, it has to do with the content they post. One person posts content from their moms blog, which seems to be pure link bait type of stuff. I followed this user at first but quickly found their posts didn't have much to offer me. I think other people likely follow them and enjoy their posts. Hey, that's great, it's just not for me. Other than that one user, I don't think there is anyone else that is active here that I filter. But I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would not take it personally if someone "filtered" me. I post a TON of content and I bet some people might be annoyed by that. Now, if someone I interact with often and feel a kinship towards filtered me, I'd be hurt by it. Still, I may never even find out. Which is fine by me. I've hushed a few users though. I'll not say who, but it basically stems from them continuously making what I find to be silly or uninformed comments that begin: "I've not read the article yet, but I will, but I was wondering..."
SHIT. Heh, I used to do that but now if I don't have time to read an article (which is all the time now) then I just don't comment on the article. I can see how annoying that would be, though.I've not read the article yet, but I will, but I was wondering...
I muted anything related to muting. Mostly due to some drama that happened a few months back that clogged up my feed. I don't care, I just want to read article and view discussions.
Oh, man, there was #askhubski drama at one point. We got a flood of Tidders in and there were a bunch of reposts and a bunch of #askhubski questions that didn't really suit the nature of what I guess general users like #askhubski to be. Someone wrote a post about askhubski and the better angels of our nature - blush that someone might have been me - but it's modeled after an earlier thenewgreen post which also talks about the better angels of our nature. A lot of people unsubbed from askhubski since and I think that alleviated most of the problems, because now these users (which I admit include me) only see asks that are shared, in general, by people whose opinions they value and who are inclined to like what the people they follow share...which of course is the point of following. There was drama before, too, but I forget what about. I think hubski has drama maybe once every six months. More if there are tidder influxes.
Interesting. did you come in a that Tidder influx, or if not from there at all and is that why you're called "refugee"? EDIT: Crap I just realized I was still quoting with reddit syntaxquestions that didn't really suit the nature of what I guess general users like #askhubski to be
I suppose a lot of people from Reddit assume AskHubski to be a replacement for AskReddit, on "The next reddit" which this place is often mistaken for.
puts legs up on footstool by fire. packs pipe (tobaccy, natch), lights, and begins puffing away. "Aye, yung caelum19, I did indeed wender here from afair, an' frem ferther t'an ye ken, perhaps. Aye, I'a spent me days in t'e depths o' tidder, 'n' afore dat I came from a place they called Digg. 'N' afore dat I spent me tame in de forums of eld, da t'ain't get nae updates nae more; t'was a place named Bash, y'see, n' but I blush t'admit I left a purple link or twain in Ebaum's Circus Werld, 'n' all'o dat." Translation: digg. _refugee_ crawled out of the trenches of digg and that's where the name comes from, haha. I agree with your assessments about replacements and "the next [blank];" that seems to be about what the problem is.
That was hillarious, you should do more old-story-telling-man impressions. The whole world should do more old-story-telling-man impressions. Old-story-telling-man should be the only way people speak. starts sharpening a stick while singing country music