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ook  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you think what is happening to reddit could happen to other major social media?

But isn't this pretty much how Tumblr works now (vote=repost on your tumblr)? There doesn't seem anything implicit in this scheme that will directly lead to thoughtful conversations... It seems more like a function of the community rather than the vote system (/r/AskHistorians is a good example)





thenewgreen  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The site you are seeing now is the result of nearly 5 years of effort. We have implemented new features and retracted some too along the way all I service of building a site and a community that could foster thoughtful discussion. That said, we are not a static site, meaning that if we find there is a better way to facilitate our goals, we will employ them. More often than not these "better ways" come directly from the community. My suggestion is to check out our primer use the site for a while and then let us know what you think.

The sharing mechanism here is more akin to Twitter than it is reddit. For sure.

Welcome!

PetesPassing  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's like a mix of Reddit and Twitter and I love it :)

I get the discussion of Reddit (small sub discussion at least) while having the connected feeling of twitter without having to reveal any personal information. Love what you're doing here!

thenewgreen  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you Pete, that's really nice to hear. I hope you stick around and do let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Cheers!

user-inactivated  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well the thing is, it's not really "voting." You're actually sharing. When you share a post, it brings it to light on the feed of any person that is following you. That way, people of like minds and like passions can discover things together. So it's not really re-posting per se, but spreading the word.

ook  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, and AFAIK, sharing-on-your-feed is exactly what Tumblr's system is, and that hasn't exactly turned out to be a bastion of... anything, really.

If Hubski seems good so far, it seems more likely because of the community than any underlying system. I like the community, but things like the prevention of insular groups(and the resulting brigading) is legitimately hard... How is hubski's system equipped to handle these problems?

(Edit: just to be clear, I don't intend this to be snarky, I'm legitimately curious about this problem. Reading through the primer now.)

Orth  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's mostly a function of the looseness of the "groups" of Hubski. Since there aren't subreddits, posts get grouped by poster/sharer, tags, and badged. Basically instead of walling off groups from one another Hubski lets each person define their own content groupings. You're sort of your own mod on Hubski, deciding what and who you want to see more or less of. Things that most people don't care for can/will be filtered and trolls/spambots just end up talking to each other, if anyone. Even though you don't necessarily see the same posts as everyone else Hubski gives more of a feeling of a singular community rather than many fragmented ones IMO.