It's a hard time to come to hubski. Usually it's a pretty easy place to dip your toe in a few times, see that a lot of good conversation is going on, make an account, and start building some relations and having conversations. A small group of recent users has decided that because they have been blocked from commenting on less that 5% of posts they should make a spectacle of themselves and disrupt the general discourse and pleasant enjoyment of the site. It's hard to get to know people at a party when the house is on fire. If hubski seems like a place that has potential to any new user they should see what things look like in a week or two when thing have settled down. Every time hubski explodes in self examination (like the twice a year "the redditors are coming" panic) things settle down.