Well alright then
I just realized that now my original quote doesn't make sense, lol. Also, it's interesting that you can completely change the title, url and description of a submission, even after people have commented. I can see a real potential for abuse as the userbase grows larger. Create a new account, submit until something gets shared by many popular users, wait until it's at the top of the "popular" page, and then change the url to goatse and the description to "OP IS A FAG LOL!" mk, what do you think about that?
Of course, but that isn't the point. A user can have a submission reach the "front page" of hubski without having a single follower. All it would take is someone posting some big news and using a popular tag that would be seen by a user with a lot of followers. That user shares the post, which is then shared by other hubski users, until it's the most popular thread of the day (since it's big news). It could be as harmless as someone rickrolling the entire community, or it could be something more malicious like malware or shock porn. My point is that if I wanted to, I could use TOR to mask my ip, create a new account and cause some havok. If I can do it, others can do it, too. If you have a vulnerability, eventually it will be exploited. I understand if you don't want to fix something that isn't (yet) broken, but after moderating reddit for so long, holes in the rules and potential exploits like this stands out as glaring red flags to me.
Yeah, I noticed that with another thread earlier. Nothing bad was changed, but the thread took on a different meaning.