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kleinbl00  ·  4357 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hey, party people.

No, I'm pissed off that on a website that focuses on "following" individuals, there isn't more of a culture of "not being a dick to the people you're following."

I think it's related to the "share" functionality, whereby if someone who is following me clicks on my wheel, it gets shared to everyone they're following... and a lot of those people don't know me from Adam (and, for example, know thenewgreen personally). The end result is that from my perspective, I've put a lot of my personality into what I write and share and feel unduly attacked when, for example, I post something about living in Hollywood and the Detroit Contingent shows up to say "fuck Hollywood, all those rich bastards deserve to starve." If they had no idea that I live and work in the entertainment industry there's no reason for me to take it personally. But considering how much I have to say and how much I've shared is about how I live and work in Hollywood, it becomes a personal attack.

I'd like to break that chain. Hubski needs to be less about "who you know" and more about "who you read."