re. lil's "chatter" point- this has been my no. 1 tool to get familiar with the voices/online personalities (hopefully close-ish to real-life) of various Hubski users. I still use it all the time. First off, it's a great way to see what subjects people are coalescing around. Second off, if you've shared a post or commented on that post, chatter brings up all comments on that post, whether you follow the users or not. Which has been a great way to broaden the list of people I follow. Generally though, you pay enough attention to chatter, and you start to recognize users just by their voice.
I have only recently started using "chatter" and "global" because I read other users talking about them. I enjoy both. "Chatter" is a good opportunity to walk into a conversation in the middle, usually elicited by a hilarious out-of-context comment or a long, thoughtful one. Instead of exploring "global" more though I may begin exploring "posts with 0 shares" and "posts with 1 share." Global doesn't do exactly what I want it to do, I suspect it is because most of the posts in global show up in my feed already.
I'm pretty sure that simply commenting on a post does not bring comments from non-followed users into your chatter. Maybe it should. if you've shared a post or commented on that post, chatter brings up all comments on that post, whether you follow the users or not.
Hmmm. Good idea. I think that's probably an easy fix, if we ask forwardslash really nicely.
Either commenting or sharing... Or maybe both together? Never really thought about which one did it. Something like that...