This is a convenient self-diagnostic metric.

In my short time (~1/2 year), I have found that it's a very small community. On a daily basis, I would estimate that 90% of the posts and comments that I read are people who I am familiar with. There are a few people that pop in occasionally who seem to have once been major Hubski community members that were before my time, but most of the user names I'm familiar with are regular posters.

That you haven't yet jived with this place isn't any fault of your own. That I have enjoyed Hubski thus far isn't any merit of my own.

My advice is to exploit the "following" function for both users and tags (and tags.users, for following a particular topic of a particular user). If you realize that you enjoy seeing a user's inputs (both in submissions, shares, and comments), follow them. If you're interested in a particular topic, follow the topic. You can even filter out topics you disagree with from users whose inputs you typically value. Just be sure you don't fashion yourself a beautiful echo chamber.

I recommend lurking. If you do, you'll soon realize that not only does Hubski have many brilliant users to listen to, but the build of this website itself is unique and worthy of recognition.

Click on chatter. Click on global. Explore tags. Don't limit yourself to your personal feed. And don't hesitate to interact with any of us because we're typically pretty difficult to offend.

Cheers!