I don't think we should dismiss remarks like this and move on. Speaking as someone watching all of this from the other side of the world, it seems very much like they are testing the waters.

Is victory being declared ballot winner, or is it actually removing the Trump administration from power? If the latter takes years to achieve due to legal processes, how can you declare it a victory?

Seems to be several voices on here who want to attract people from reddit. I have to say I'm not a fan of this idea.

Part of the appeal of this place to me was the fact that I came upon it while actively hunting for alternatives to reddit. No one referred me here, and there was no campaign to attract people to the site. I like the fact that this is a forum for people who've found it themselves rather than come along as some sort of hunt for "the next new reddit".

So far, we haven't seen much in the way of a competition by Hubski users to build their profile by posting ad hoc comments en masse in the hopes that at least some of them will attract approval (karma farming, in other words). I realise we have tools in place to ignore this sort of thing when it happens. Still, the more we try to turn this place into a recreation of reddit's 2007 golden era, the more likely we are to mirror that site's very gradual decline.

There's enough of a trail online for others to find Hubski on their own initiative, if they're unhappy with the places they currently go to. Can't we just grow our community organically? Are we in that much of a hurry to become famous?