Lovely Hubskiers,
We are going to put together the best content posted to Hubski in the last year and we need your help! Next Monday, December 16th, at 9am PST we are going to post 4 different categories for you to submit and vote on:
1. Best Posts
2. Best Discussions / Debates
3. Best Comments
4. Best comment that, when taken out of context, is even better.
Get your searching hats on, go through old posts and comments, and try to find the most amazing stuff of the year.
We will let the voting continue for a week and then put together a page containing the Best of 2013 in the final week of December. We realize we may need to do a final round of voting using another system before then. We will play it by ear. :)
We would also like to invite you to make your own #bestof2013 posts throughout the remainder of this month. They can be your own best comments ( cough narcissist cough ) or the best content from your blog or favorite site. They can be insightful, weird, thoughtful, outrageous, or anything in between. Remember, you can now use post lists to collect all your Best Of's!
Have fun with it and we look forward to remembering and rediscovering the very best of the best. Thank you!
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lil, theadvancedapes, BorgoPo, _refugee_, StJohn, cW, veen and other content creators/site owners on Hubski, I'd be very interested to know what your favorite conversations on Hubski around your own content was for 2013. That is something I would definitely like to know. -Thanks for all the great content this year. I enjoy reading all of your work for many different reasons. Glad ya'll are here. Here are some of my favorites from around Hubski from 2013 so far... fuffle returns: http://hubski.com/pub?id=114270 -This one brought a tear to my eye. -no joke. ecib's Hands on with Google Glass in Detroit: http://hubski.com/pub?id=117777 Our first Collaborative Song: http://hubski.com/pub?id=116266 Project E-Vox by cW: http://hubski.com/pub?id=115876 Eat Your Ballot by minimum_wage (great conversation): http://hubski.com/pub?id=115703 sounds_sound sticker designs were BAD ASS: http://hubski.com/pub?id=115699 Classic Music Owl thinks you should check out: http://hubski.com/pub?id=112242 -I've had this "stuck" in my feed for a long while now. Great stuff. kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitichttp://hubski.com/pub?id=112127 -great list, great conversation. Editable Poem: http://hubski.com/pub?id=110274 What Happened on the Flight From Dallas posted by insomniasexx http://hubski.com/pub?id=101882 -great read. Personal Content Isn't a Sin by mk: http://hubski.com/pub?id=100957 Tell Me About Your First Love by onehunna: http://hubski.com/pub?id=96172 Girls and Boys Together: Gender on Hubski by lil: http://hubski.com/pub?id=94138 The Year I Started a Cult by kleinbl00: http://hubski.com/pub?id=92618 -DAMN good comment. Blink by onehunna: http://hubski.com/pub?id=92465 Okay, more to come later. This is F-U-N!
Well, I've only posted 3 blogs here yet, so the choice wasn't really hard. I really like the discussion that resulted from the post on sense of place. Nice collection of posts!
I was pretty thrilled that people took an interest in my novel. The discussion about Radium Baby was intelligent and constructive — I don't often get a chance to chat about my work, so you can imagine how much fun it was.
BestOfHubski2013 content/discussion via The Advanced Apes: - Can We Live Forever?: Hubski. - Are We Observing Extraterrestrial Intelligence Without Realizing It?: Hubski. - Pathway to the Global Brain (Part 1/5): Introduction to Cybernetics: Hubski. - Our Memories: Hubski. - I'm Not An Atheist: Hubski. - #Justice for Trayvon: Hubski. - Why Have Sex?: Hubski.
I've read a few of these but I have a lot of catching to up to do. I know what break is going to spent on (hint: it involves a lot of Hubski-ing).
I'd be very interested to know what your favorite conversations on Hubski around your own content was for 2013.
This wasn't necessarily my favourite conversation, but it was my most Hubski-commented blog (85 comments): Will the Real Lance Armstrong Please Stand Up?.
Please share those illustrations when the finished product is put together. That's really cool of you to involve her in this.
mk so what can we do about unsolicited mass pings? a couple solutions: 1) check whether there has been any prior interaction between the two accounts. potentially expensive (i don't know hubski internals) but i think the best solution 2) set a limit on how many pings can be in one post based on account age and possibly cumulative post/comment scores. potentially simpler but may be overly restrictive in some cases
I think #2 sounds reasonable. We have a couple of features like the community tag that only kick in after you've completed one hubwheel. We could use that as a cut-off point and it would likely handle most cases. I just realized that ignoring and muting doesn't alter shoutouts. I suppose both should probably prevent them.
I think it's reasonable that you shouldn't be able to shout-out to someone that isn't following you. Also, I don't think you should be able to shout out to anyone until you've received a full hub-wheel. Good suggestions. It's not much of an issue now, but it definitely could be, easily.I just realized that ignoring and muting doesn't alter shoutouts. I suppose both should probably prevent them.
-Yes.
reposting this in public because it's worth saying as i suggested here, i would like to permit shout-outs from any account i've previously intentionally interacted with. that could be as minimal as me sharing one of their posts or replying to a comment by them. i believe it should not include them sharing or replying to one of my posts, because that's easy to do for them and involuntary for me.i think restricting shout-outs only to people that you follow is a bit extreme. there are a lot of people who i don't follow that i want to see shout-outs from.
Good point, I guess it would make sense if you had the ability to chose whether or not people that you don't follow can shout-out to you.
what's the best way to search through old posts?
You can use the badged posts and dig through those. You can go through old hubski newsletters to find good content. You can browse the tags or go through all posts with 9 shares and find some jewels. If you want to search for a specific post, you can use the search engine in the upper right hand corner. -Be sure to click on the "?" next to it for the best ways to find what you are looking for. Good luck!
Also, you can change the URL of http://hubski.com/s.global?id=9 to any number. Like 100. Or 44. http://hubski.com/s.global?id=44
Currently, the best depth is via user-specific search. i.e.
We are well aware of the difficulty in search, and have been discussing solutions, which will probably mean a dedicated server. forwardslash this could be one avenue towards the kinds of things that we were discussing last night. user:mk google
If you've saved posts they will be in your "saved posts" on your profile. You can also go through your comments and see which posts you commented on. Failing that, you may follow the #bestof2013 tag and see what others suggest. Or, you can click on "Community" and look at who has been the "most badged". Although, 'Saydrah' is listed on that and since I've been a life-long Redditor that makes me a tad wary. Anyways, I cannot seem to find a way to reverse sort the feed by time, which would be optimal.
Assuming you share the things you think are good, looking over your shares is a good way to find things you thought were good.
I would recommend staying away from almost everything suggested below -- the purpose of the bestof shouldn't necessarily be to highlight all the badged posts which are already highlighted on 'badges'. Rather, follow bfv's suggestion and hunt heavily through your shares, my shares, thenewgreen's shares, shares of users whose content you regularly enjoy, etc.
I think that this is the best idea. I'm pretty stingy with my own shares, and tend to save them for the "best" content, but searching the other users who I follow who have ben here much longer than I have is a great idea.
I want to plug my own first post on Who's on hubski,since I haven't been getting involved in hubski too much recently, and my acc is less than two months old at this point anyway, I don't know much of what's been going on this year.. This thread is/was nowhere near the 'best' so to speak, but i think a post like this is a neat thing to add to any 'best of' list, stating who we are as a sort of preface to what we do. EDIT! I almost forgot! _refugee_'s epic post about Hubskiers for best out-of-conext comment!
Badged posts are probably a good place to start. I don't think I remember all the cool badged posts from 300 days ago.
Here's a vote: The poem a day that started here on January 3 2013 between littlebirdie and JakobVirgil. But that would need a new category: Best spontaneous collaborative project. Actually if you just have best collaborative project - it's been an amazing year for collaboration. By the way, check out The State of Hubski 2012, written at the end of 2012. It's been corrupted. I'm sure mk can tweak it.
I did realize that moments after I posted. But, in my opinion, the plurality method of voting is flawed. This opinion applies mostly to voting in U.S. elections however (and why third parties in the U.S. are basically doomed to failure - again, personal opinion only).