This is speculation of course, but if that's actually true both my heart and my respect go out to that woman.
Yeah. I saw that in my comment diving. Someone posted a pic. The thing is though, that's all she said. A single sentence. No follow up. No counter explanation. The /r/pics subreddit is going through quite a bit of drama too. Users are mad that they came out of private mode. Some blame /u/allthefoxes while others say the admins took control. Personally, if these screenshots of an IRC chat between the mods is legit, /u/allthefoxes isn't looking too hot right now. During the night people were also posting pure black images in protest, which all gotten taken down. Now they're posting various "victoria" images instead. Lots of people are making noise all over the place, especially putting heat on /u/kn0thing. I gotta say, I've been on Reddit for almost five years now. I think it hit its peak a year or two back and its been downhill since. I'll probably sound like an asshole saying this, but I'm kind of entertained by what's going on. I like seeing big things fall apart. Edit: Now all posts on /r/pics that have any reference to "Victoria" are being removed. Man. Talk about digging yourself a deeper hole.
I feel you. I'm trying to get the people from the badacademics subs to consider splitting their time between there and here.I'll probably sound like an asshole saying this, but I'm kind of entertained by what's going on. I like seeing big things fall apart.
Well,whom have you succeeded in bringing (apart from me and @zackscary ) ?
My issue getting the people I like over is that the main subs I use have been pretty mcuh unaffected due to small size. Beyond the huge subs, in the long tail, things tend to get over these little bumps just fine. My fav (and now pretty much only) sub had only one comment I. the previous exodus, and I didn't notice anyone leave. But now, some recruitment may be in order.
I'd have a similar problem. The people I'd love to see over here are pretty hardcore into their subject matters. I don't know if Hubski would have the volume of content that they'd want to see on a consistent basis. I'm actually posting a lot about cars and will post quite a bit about boxing to maybe plant some of those seeds. I don't know how well I'll be able to pull it off.
Yeah, I think for now Hubski will be more of a general interest/dabbling site for most users. What's absolutely wonderful though is that so many people here seem to be very intelligent and insightful, which leads to great discussions. That in my opinion more than makes up for the lack of specialization.
I came in right before the peak, I had about maybe 6 months in when it just started changing overnight. I noticed that top posts were all garbage, I actually deleted all the default subs, except politics, and even that got dumped recently. It's definitely been sinking. It's just a huge ship so it's taking a while. That being said, you don't sound like an asshole actually.
Yeah. I always used Reddit for the subreddits. It was very convenient to have one single account on a single site than have multiple accounts across a spectrum of different forums. At the same time, it offered me the bonus of sometimes stumbling on new things. Personally, I think I noticed a change around my fifth or sixth account, so about 2 years ago. It was like overnight, people just stopped trying. They stopped trying to find new and interesting things to talk about. They stopped trying to have open and honest discussions. They stopped trying to meet people half way during debates. They stopped trying to promote OC. On and on and on. The fact that people like /u/gallowboob can reap so much karma today when three or four years ago people would have hated him for what he does is very telling.
This screenshot, while unconfirmed, is also a bit juicy. Edit: Which is countered with this one. Edit 2: Looks like the creator of /r/secretsanta was just let go as well. What a crazy day. Edit 3: It looks like the screenshot about mods losing control of /r/pics is false. That said though, /r/all is really starting to blow up about the issue and /r/blackout2015 is really starting to gain traction. There's alsotalks about people getting banned and posts being deleted. I think the admins have a real mess on their hands at this point. Edit 4: Just to keep the gossip train going, this thread and especially this post are pretty damning. I'm not very good at archiving things or taking screen shots, so hopefully it'll still be up when you guys click the links. Once again, these could be fakes as well. Still though, it makes for an interesting story.
Holy crap. I enjoyed secret santa too. Does hubski do a secret santa?
We currently don't have a "secret santa." You know, this may sound crazy but I'm not that familiar with reddit. mk, forwardslash and insomniasexx are though. How does the secret santa work? We have lots of interactive groups etc. We have had book exchanges and hubski pen pals etc. We even write and record music together virtually in the #hubskioriginalmusicclub, but no secret santa.
Basically you signed up at redditgifts.com and linked your reddit account to it. Then when you signed up for a gift exchange (secret santa being one of many) you would get paired with someone else who signed up for the same exchange. You would then get a link to their profile where they enumerate their likes and dislikes and you would get an address to send your gift to. It will probably be the only thing I miss about Reddit. I'm seriously liking hubski from the little bit I've seen though.
We've done book exchanges and I think record exchanges. Since the community is much smaller, it was "someone picks out of a hat" style rather than a organized dedicated website. If you are interested, I would say start an informal one yourself and see if it generates interest. I would recommend waiting a couple of weeks until you see who sticks and leaves from this influx. Traditionally, some people only stick around for a couple of days. If they're here after a couple weeks, they're usually here for life.
I participated in a Reddit Secret Santa once and it was fun. Got a really cool CD from my Secret Santa. It was a River City Extension CD and the album was Unmistakable Man. It was really good. Never heard of the band before the gift. I would definitely be up for it if Hubski decided to do one.
5k votes on Reddit you mean? The votes are fluffed by an algorithm, so new posts can float to the top while old posts float to the bottom. The "vote count" is more of a score than an actual vote. About a year or so back, Reddit did something controversial with the vote system. You used to be able to see how many votes a post or comment got, both positive and negative. You could see how many people supported something and how many people didn't. The admins created a new system that hid those counts, so you only see an overall score. What that effectively did was muddy the whole view as to how well a certain post or comment was actually supported. Now, you could click on the comment sections of an actual post to see the percentage of votes actually supported something, and on controversial posts that got near equal amounts of upvotes and downvotes a dagger would appear. However, to the majority of people, who don't pay attention to those things, they won't take the time to look into those. I think it had an honest, noticeable, and unfortunately negative impact on the flow of discussions. Edit: There have also been strong accusations and evidence of astroturfing on some of the main subreddits for a long time. /r/news is especially accused of this a lot. The most recent is that a bunch of articles about TPP have allegedly been taken down the past few days.