To be fair, your original comment seemed passive-aggressive as fuck; even though it's probably unintentional.

I'm not sure where I was passive. I think it's fair to say that it's aggressive-aggressive.

This is because every time Reddit shits the bed, Hubski becomes borderline unusable. And we all REALLY LIKE the people we get who stick around, so we all suffer through two or three weeks of heavy sighs and exasperated PMs and baseline irritation and a thousand and one posts and comments about Reddit because we know that this is our culture, not yours, and you really want to contribute but Reddit is all you know, so we all act as welcoming and inviting as we can because odds are, if you found us here you will get along.

But.

- someone has to complain about the layout.

- someone else has to complain about the lack of mobile.

- someone else demands an API.

- someone else spams #askhubski with a faux-intelligent discussion.

- someone else decries muting

- someone else decries ignoring

- someone else has a public hissy-fit about that person that has them muted but they just gotta get in their words argh argh argh

- and someone else has to predict the eventual demise of Hubski if it doesn't conform to their preconceived notions of how the place ought to work.

This is why "lurk moar." If the average new user could STFU and watch for three weeks, they'd piss off exactly no one, they'd understand the site dynamics, they'd start following dozens of interesting people and when they wander into #pubski they'd know what everyone's talking about because Hubski is a place where once a week we can post a "random off-topic stuff from your life" thread and have it not descend into narcissistic chaos. That's unrealistic, though - Hubski is very much about participation, so we all do our best to suffer the children despite the fact that we see this stuff so often we can almost set our clocks by it.

We know you're getting used to it. We know it's alien to you. What you need to know is that we're giving you every last bit of patience we got and that the semi-annual mute discussions tax many of us past the point of cheerfulness.