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All that said, quite alternatively, I would think downvotes and all the exclusion filters that get applied may be actually OK but only served to the downvoter e.g. my view of hubski is not altered because some influential heavies have downvoted someone to the floor. They can have their filtered hubski and please let me make my own reading and social decisions.
An interesting point. In fact, the direction that Hubski is pointed in seems to reduce the value (if that's what it can be called) of a down-vote filter. That's why it has been on the cutting block before. A bit of punk rock is a good thing. Hubski will not be different than everything that has gone before it. Agreed. The upshot is that we have successes and failures to learn from (and not just the obvious ones). But as you know, Hubski has an inherited framework. This chipping pattern going on is both planned and evolving. That said, I think we can see a faint bit of the form taking shape. BTW, IMHO emergent phenomena are very interesting ones. And why spend such time and effort on something that isn't interesting?