We were having a little discussion about how people with few or no followers get noticed on IRC earlier today, and I though I would try a little experiment.
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The Plan: If you follow me, reply to this post directly and share it.
If you don't follow me and you got here from your feed, post a reply to the person that this post was shared by and share.
If you don't follow me and you got here from somewhere other than your feed, reply to my reply below.
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Why?
I want to know how far a post from someone with only a few followers will penetrate the community, and this seems like the best way to find out.
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Other Notes
1. I'm busy tomorrow (Sunday, PST), but I'll be back on Monday, and I plan to write some code to parse the replies and make some graphs of the data.
2. I'm a bit conflicted about flat out asking everyone to share my post, but this only works if everyone shares. I don't think a single post will have too much of an effect on anything, but perhaps mk can drop by and let me know if this is going to have any unwanted consequences.
I unfollowed you because you share and create such a deluge of drivel that my feed had become a bilge of banality. I unfollowed everyone else because the echo chamber effect created by not following tags made Hubski vastly more interesting logged out than logged in. Lately I've been using Hubski at cross purposes to mk's intent - I subscribe to nothing, I go on vast ignoring sprees (anyone and everyone that has ever tagged or shared #circlejerk, #DAE, #drama, etc), and I cruise everything from a less-than-complete circle (which filters out all the "me2ism") to a "somebody shared this" circle.
kleinbl00 can be kinda harsh sometimes, but I have to say, ever since your "Reddit account deletion" post your followers have been the majority of my ignore list. The #circlejerk #braveryjerk crowd are all about you! So I unfollowed you for the same reason (though I wouldn't say that your shares create a deluge of drivel, because, well, I really don't know what saying that accomplishes). How has your experience changed recently? For better/for worse? I'm pretty curious how being followed by a certain crowd affects a user, and you seem like the perfect case study for that.
> The #circlejerk #braveryjerk crowd are all about you! I was under the impression the tagging system meant that it was irrelevant so long as they stick to those tags (which they've been doing aside from syncretics thread which got flooded and jerked hard).
Sort of, but the ignore system makes it so that their posts can't make it to my feed, and I'm not going to see them in my posts. So I've done that too.
I thought you could ignore particular tags, so that say - if you've got someone who post half good content, half circlejerking - only the good stuff will show up. Still seems like it would be a good fix, provided people use the correct tags. It'd at least be worth a shot, before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Since tags are easier to make than they are to block, it's safer to ignore a user than a tag. And jerkers are anything but consistent with tags. #circlejerk, #redditjerk, #test... it goes on and on and on. Why would I bother with someone whose interests run so completely counter to what I want to use this site for? Why wouldn't I throw the baby out with the bathwater when there are so many babies and so much bathwater? Well, I'm talking to you right now and I have you ignored. It's not like I'll never see these people- we'll have some posts in common and when someone seems like not a jerk and I have them ignored, I'll look into their shares and if they're overwhelmingly sharing good content, then I'll follow them and think I was wrong.
I apologize for the "circlejerk" crowd following me over - they did it because they thought it would be funny, I didn't ask them to. In fact, I've ignored all of the "circlejerky" tags that they use like #circlejerk and #braveryjerk, so my feed is roughly the same as it was before. I'm a bit confused as to why they caused you to unfollow me, though... was I posting or sharing things that you did not want to see in your feed?
No, but when you post or share something they tend to be around it, because they follow you.
I'm sorry if I come across as if I'm on a high horse, but people, do you really think this adds to anything at all? If anything, this evokes negative emotions. I'd suggest the tried and true approach: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
If you got here from somewhere other than your feed, please reply here. (and mention how you got here)
http://hubski.com/community - Most popular post today:
http://hubski.com/common which I clicked from my blog. but I just checked my feed and I see it near the top sent by thenewgreen
Got here by stalking thenewgreen (well, sort of: I was having a conversation with him elsewhere and clicked on his comments feed, which led me here).
Massively edited comment: I completely misunderstood your comment. Sorry. I thought you meant you found "hubski" from following me from another conversation elsewhere. Now I get it. My bad. Long day.
Not your bad at all, my dear fellow. I ought to have been much clearer in my original comment. Thank you for sparing me the need to clarify it, and thank you also for commenting on my other link.
I dont follow anyone and clicked discover to see whats poppin off, and found a link to http://hubski.com/pub?id=61525 which lead me to http://hubski.com/pub?id=60669 which lead me to http://hubski.com/pub?id=60491 (confusing, is it all the same post?)
Sure is. Neuromancer is easily my favorite novel, and I'm interested in artificial intelligence.
Don't give away spoilers! I just started reading neuromancer haha
Yeah I got into scifi through Arthur C Clarke, and compared to hard scifi cyberpunk can seem weird. It's taken me 15 years to learn to accept it for what it is and not judge it by the standards of other sub-genres. Have you read Pattern Recognition? I think it's Gibson's best work. (And serendipitously enough it prominently features Klein blue.)
Yeah, I can understand that. I love Neuromancer, and like the other two books in the sprawl series, but after that Gibson really falls off for me. I like Stephenson better overall.
My feed, shared by thenewgreen, mk, lil, JakobVirgil, joalg236
Also. I am following you now! Clever, clever Hubskier....
My feed. Thanks to JV. Interesting idea, Wintermute. EDIT: BTW, I totally support this. I'm interested to see the result too.
Feed, shared by thenewgreen, lil, mk, and theadvancedapes.