Please no. That's a load of crap and you know it. It's very easy to distinguish between something which has half the chromosomes needed to be considered human and something that has all of them (or close in the case of some mutations :D)

Of course, on a technicality the statement is correct. Masturbation does kill sperm which amounts to cells. The intended meaning of that propaganda phrase is that it's killing a human life (closer to the legal definition of murder) which is just plain dumb.

That sort of completely useless, overly dramatic, and completely fallacious statement shouldn't be welcome here. If only we had "downvotes" ... I know you were probably trying to be funny or just spewing something you've heard dozens of times before, but please, no.

Favourite video game? Hard to say. I think one of them has to be Red Dead Redemption, that game is terrific in every aspect. I might follow that with one of the Halo series, I have a special place in my heart for that game as Halo: Combat Evolved was the first game I ever owned.

Although I like multiplayer, I say a good singleplayer campaign is better than any online multiplayer play. If a game has replay value, and a finely crafted single player experience, I say it wins hands down. I recently finished Dishonored, thoroughly enjoyed it (though it was cheesy at times). But in terms of gameplay, can't wait to play through it again. Same goes for Portal (both 1 and 2) - perfect game!

Onto TF2: Don't worry! It's a fast paced game and really hard to pick up at the start. I'd advise starting as the Soldier class, it's just jump around, run, aim, shoot, repeat. After you get the hang of that and manage at least a 1:1 kill / death ratio per life start messing around with other classes. You'll soon find one for you! Also: Play it often. Nobody gets good at something in a day, and although with games it can seem different because of tutorials, the TF2 tutorial and online play are so different it's impossible to be ready straight away without time playing online!

I agree that there are a surprising number of steps to reach the feeds for a specific hashtag. I like how Tumblr has their system set up. When you go to the search box on tumblr, a drop down menu of your followed tags with new posts pops up and if you click on them they go right to that tag's feed. Also, at the bottom of the drop down menu is an "Explore more tags" link that might be helpful for people to discover new tags they might not realize to search for.

All better.

Thanks Saydrah. I should have done that much sooner.

...I really hope not.

possessedcow recently made a suggestion that typing #science into the search bar would take you directly to the page of all #science posts.

I like the simplicity of that approach.

I'm not opposed to a one-click option to bring up your followed tags. Currently it is two clicks: click on your name, then click on 'followed tags'. Perhaps something like rorifer suggests, when you type # into the search bar, it could drop down a list of your followed tags.

I think one of the goals of Hubski is to move away from the idea of content-based browsing and onto user-based browsing. The first is more likely to lead to the glorification of the masses and the second more likely to lead to... well, whatever you want, not whatever everyone wants.

For instance, on Reddit if you want to know about politics then you subscribe to r/politics and whatever makes it to the top there is what you're likely to see, regardless of whether or not it's good, original content or just whatever people have forgotten about for long enough that the repost is worth karma.

On Hubski, all I have to do to make sure I'm seeing interesting political dialogue is follow a user who seems active, intelligent, and focused on politics! Sure, I'll get some of his other posts as well, but they're more likely to be submissions which I'm interested in rather than what hundreds/thousands/millions of users are interested in.

I'm sure that over time some of the more popular users will end up basically being "subs" unto themselves, but the user-follow system is much more likely to please each person individually by avoiding democracy in favor of a sort of information-bubble.

I think that you need to encourage more people to move away from thinking this as a Reddit clone. Tags are basically subreddits, and are doomed to run into the same problems. It seems like the user-follow feature is way more interesting and deep than the subject-following feature. I would do everything I could to encourage following users over following tags- but I think you already know that.

It would be great if you could make your own groups of people you're following. For instance, I could look at my followees (who I'm following) and create X number of categories (say a dozen per user) and sort my followees into those categories. Then if I want to filter by my own categories, I can see the users I follow for their programming acumen, humor, writing quality, or what have you. Whatever actually drew me to the user in the first place.

Also, while I'm replying to you, has anyone mentioned yet that it's very hard to read the dark blue text when you're following someone but they're not following you? I imagine you don't see a lot of people not following you, so it might not seem like much of an issue, but for me, at least, I have to highlight the user name to be sure of who I'm looking at.

I think the human desire to belong is the most dangerous thing in the world.

It boggles my mind to think that I may see the first manned Mars mission in my lifetime.