Hubski is a place for thoughts.

Is it? Maybe your Hubski is a place for thoughts, but I doubt ytknows' is. I think one of the best things about Hubski is that it doesn't have enough limits to clearly push itself in any direction, but it has given its users plenty of tools to encourage or discourage the content they see.

I like Hubski for its discussions, but if some people join and don't want to discuss what they post, Hubski can handle that without disturbing you. People who don't mind will gravitate towards the empty poster, people who do mind will be repelled in varying degrees by the severity of their pleasure/annoyance.

I think if Hubski is going to mature as a site it's going to come from accepting more than just the community that's here now. Seems like an innocuous suggestion, since obviously you have to add people to grow. We have a nice bunch of people who want to talk about how a site like this works and computer stuff and how the future's going to be. We need to be more accepting of adding communities. If I wanted to post exclusively about #anime, I could. If the circlejerkers want to do nothing but #circlejerk, they can. It doesn't hurt anyone to have a lot of disparate communities bumping around in the petri dish of Hubski.

If you like to keep your Hubski as a place for thoughts, that's great and I tend to agree with you. But some people really like puppies. Maybe they find puppies interesting, maybe they just wanna look at them for whatever reason, but those people shouldn't be stigmatized here. Ignore them, never follow them, comment against them respectfully when you can, Hubski's platform can handle the rest. Let their community grow, too. Don't tell people what Hubski is, tell them what you use Hubski for.

Sometimes I post links with little to no comment because I post it as "this is interesting, huh?" But that's about all I have to say about it. Like the action park think I posted early today. I don't have much to say about it! It's ridiculous, it's something that happened/is happening, and that's kind of that for me. But if people want to talk about it, that's fine.