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dONK  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Users, Old users and the better angels of our nature -

Thanks for having us. Here's a quick question: if one who uses Reddit is a Redditor, what the hell do you call someone who uses hubski?





thenewgreen  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We've been saying hubskier but sounds_sound used another term... what was it?? A hubbie or some such nonsense :)

sounds_sound  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah man. I've called us Hubbies before. But I also remember calling us all 'Skiers' - because we don't surf the web, we ski it. That makes zero sense. Or complete sense. You choose.

Mr_Pink  ·  4051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hubbies gets my vote, it just sounds so happy and friendly.

al  ·  3794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

although in britain a "hubbie" is someones' husband, isn't it a lil weird to call us all hubbies?

thenewgreen  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I choose "partial sense."

humanodon  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How about hubcap? No? Ok . . .

kleinbl00  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hubskier is a fucking terrible word. Call us members.

thenewgreen  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, the "membership effect" we could piggyback on amex's marketing.

edit: I do like "members" better than "users".

humanodon  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So, hubski "member's only" jackets are coming out soon, right?

thenewgreen  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm starting to dig the idea of being a Hubski member. I think you can only call yourself that once your hub-wheel has made a full rotation. Only then can you wear the jacket.

humanodon  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can see headlines now: "INTERNET GANGS! More things for you to fear."

Meriadoc  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This was actually one of my favorite threads a while back. We were all trying to decide. I think we had 15 or 20 suggestions and in the end had fuck all to show for it because no one could decide on anything.

lil  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I remember that conversation as well. It was inconclusive.

Whenever I want to talk about something a hubski person said, I use the term "hubskiverse" as in, "I was lurking in the hubskiverse the other day and read that we will all be able to connect to the Global Brain via implants."

What do you think? Kind of poetic, eh?

Meanwhile, let's hope theadvancedapes did some magic at the Global Brain Institute.

Kafke  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I imagine it was a long, intricate, intelligent discussion going into the complexities of what each term implied. The debate probably lasted a couple months or so, and everyone walked away with their own opinion.

Reddit's was more of: 5 seconds of bickering, and everyone agrees that the "smart" and "intellectual" move is to just put "or" at the end. Because that's how everything is, right?

humanodon  ·  4053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And you guys didn't shut down hubski?