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kleinbl00  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you could change something about Hubski, what would it be?
If you're going to do that, kindly allow me to opt the fuck out.

I recognize that Hubski is a place without downvotes, but Reddit's handy-dandy method for setting up an RSS feed for whenever somebody comments is why I have an army of tedious little shits preventing me from commenting usefully. Saydrah has ~6 downvote bots even now. All it takes is a griefer with an axe to grind showing up and stirring up shit whenever you contribute to really kill the buzz of contributing.





thundara  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well, it's technically not that much harder to have a bot that converts static pages into RSS feeds ( http://feed43.com/ ), I do like the idea of having RSS feeds that users can personally enable/disable.

Edit: It might be neat to just enable HTML5 desktop notifications like GMail has now, though, for when you have hubski already open

mk  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Edit: It might be neat to just enable HTML5 desktop notifications like GMail has now, though, for when you have hubski already open

That is an interesting idea. I'm going to look into that.

thenewgreen  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I had never even considered that people would use it to target-troll a person. How lame. There has to be a way to do it w/o enabling the d-bags, right?
kleinbl00  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
If I have control over who gets to follow me and who doesn't, no harm, no foul. This would be cumbersome as fuck, however.
thenewgreen  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Maybe it could only be enabled if two people follow each other?
kleinbl00  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's... an interesting idea. I kinda like it.
thenewgreen  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
mk you might also want to make the direct/private messaging contingent upon a "follow-follow" relationship to avoid spamming and/or inappropriate use.
thenewgreen  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks. mk -so let it be written, so let it be done.
mk  ·  5028 days ago  ·  link  ·  
LOL. Another reason not to do it.

I used to have a feed of comments of people that you follow that you could look at, but I axed it. I might consider bringing that back, but there aren't any notifications involved.