I have just found your site through the whole Edward Snowden censorship posts on reddit and I must say I like the look of it.
What is the community like versus reddit?
Yeah, lurk moar. I don't know when this phrase vanished from the popular lexicon, but as a general rule of thumb, a great deal can be learned about any community by observing until you think you have a handle on it, then cautiously, politely engaging in discussions. Had you observed this gentle maxim, you would likely have gotten your answers without demanding boons and pissing all over a community based on personal connections.
wario, meet kleinbl00. kleinbl00, meet wario. I'm sure the two of you will get along just great. Yeah I agree though. It's the same as an in-person get-together or whatever when you're new to a group of people. Most of the time you're not just going to barge in and ask "hey what are you all like" right to their faces. At least I wouldn't. It's more valuable to learn from observation and then start doing stuff like that. Also, I do find it pretty hilarious that everybody is pissing and moaning about censorship on reddit, corrupt mods, possible conspiracies so on and so forth. Okay, grumpy BE awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Oh god I am so sorry to barge in on your website, I was being light hearted get over it dude. Why are you finding it hilarious as even though there might not be corrupt mods or censorship on reddit the evidence that the government IS infiltrating and manipulating opinion and websites/blogs. It isn't hilarious its Stasi-esque. I haven't left Reddit I just saw this site in a post and thought it would be cool to check out and everyone has been cool to me today except you.
Speaking as someone who moderates a default (/r/movies), has moderated defaults (/r/IAmA and /r/AskReddit) and spent one cringe-worthy week moderating The New /r/Politics, the phrase you're looking for isn't "Stasi-esque" but "a confederacy of dunces." The straw that broke my back was when the concensus was "oops, maybe we shouldn't block all of Mother Jones but Kevin Drum? Yeah, he's a spammer." - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. [Hanlon's Razor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor)
All I'm going to say is that while I admit that last comment was sardonic, I do hope that you get along with him and everyone else here. Sometimes the lack of physical conversation really kills a sentence. My apologies about coming off as an ass. Though I will say it's unfair to say "everyone but you" when I was perfectly nice in answering your other question. A sample size of two comments tells you nothing. Anyway, best of luck on Hubski and I'm sure I'll see you around pretty often.
I like that idea. I realize that this is completely unsolicited, but if you're looking to get to know the people that use Hubski better we have a lot of weekly things / clubs going on: Scifi Club Weekly "What Have You Been Listening to" Music Thread Hubski Drink Club (Mead is this week!) Semi-regular podcasts that are entirely user-made and always open to submissions for ideas. Weekly DJ which just got rebooted. We have a tag of the week which is a great way to find new tags that you might miss otherwise. There's been a lot of other stuff too, and if I've missed any other weekly or semi-regular occurrences, somebody please correct me. That's just to partially explain kb's comment about this being a place built off personal connections since that comment chain stopped in it's tracks.
I'll plug in the #photochallenge since my month is starting soon :) I also liked the #thingstolookat.uh_oh by uh_oh so hopefully we get some art fans in this influx to get the artistic side of Hubski a bit more active.
You should read the primer page: http://hubski.com/primer And here are a couple of threads to start you off: http://hubski.com/tag?id=newtohubski Welcome, I hope you like it here :)
In posts, when you click on the wheel you "share" it to all your followers (you can see all your posts and shares when you click on your username). With comments, they are just upvotes. Next to your username at the top, you have a wheel that will gradually fill up as people share your submissions and upvote your comments. Once you've filled it up once, you're allowed to tag other posts with a community tag and each time you fill it up you get a badge that you can give away to a really good comment or post. Stick around, it will all become clear pretty fast. Any suggestions for the tutorial? You can shout out mk (the leader our little sect) or post in #bugski if you do :)
Only suggestion I would have would be to point people to the primer at the end, unless I missed that.. Thanks for your help, one last thing, the only way for me to know that people were replying to this post was to actually go to the post and check the comments.. are there any kind of inbox/notifications? or is that all in the feed?
What does "neckbeard" mean to you? Is it a man who is unattractive by conventional standards, one who is socially awkward, or one who due to mental and emotional problems has trouble maintaining standard hygiene? How do any of these affect your interactions with someone online? And what is wrong with euphoria? Do you even know what that word means? Here are some definitions: "a feeling of great happiness and excitement, a feeling of well-being or elation", "a state of intense happiness and self-confidence". Why would you want to avoid that? Yes some later definitions say it can be associated with a "pathological state such as mania" but it doesn't necessarily have to be. I would strive to be euphoric all the time if I could do it safely - http://hedweb.com/
Not sure what it means to him, but apparently this is what it means to some people in Manhattan: http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/hipster-wannabes-forking-over-thousands-for-facial-hair-transplants/ Who am I kidding. This is just a clickbait NY Post non-story. But it amused me :)What does "neckbeard" mean to you?
Oddly enough we do get a few people who aren't otherwise versed in the language of the internet. I've spent so much time online that I forget that these things are self-evident to others. I have to remind myself of that everytime I hear or see someone use euphoric unironicly :P
that hedweb looks like interesting stuff. I've been thinking a lot lately that it seems society is making the transition into post-scarcity, this intersects nicely with that.
In case you missed it, there is a mobile version that is in beta.
I was just wondering about the url scheme here, is there something to reddit where I could say go to hubski/t/dogs for tags about dogs or, hubski/u/wario for me? I always liked that feature. I guess you aren't reddit though so I shouldn't try and turn you into it.
I agree that reddit's url scheme is nicer than query string, and implementing that is actually one of the things that up next on our list of things todo for hubski
Currently if you want to access those things through URL you can do it like this: Tag: hubski.com/tag?id="inserttagehere" User: hubski.com/user?id="insertusernamehere" I'm not sure if there are any other ways at the moment.
Full of societal loathing, mouth breathing, elitist-striving neckbeards. Though, it's from this that good content is produced because of the high standards imposed.