I liked reddit because I liked conversation, but before reddit I was a social media manager for a lot of brands. I got in the habit of digesting and posting about A LOT of articles.
Hubski seems a little sparse, and I'm focusing on posting articles that I find value in, but is there some kind of etiquette in terms of how much we should be posting?
I don't want to inundate people.
Look at it this way: I see a lot of content in the course of a day. I share almost none of it because I assume that most people have plenty of sources of content. If Hubski were my sole source of news I'd have a severely skewed sense of the world. Sometimes, however, I see several articles that I specifically think people on here would like to see, or are likely to generate interesting discussion among people I know would like to see it. I'm not always right, but I share things specifically to get the take of people whose opinions and backgrounds I value. There have been times when there were five or six things I wanted people to see all at once. I shared them. There have been months when I haven't seen anything I wanted to share. One thing I don't do is play submission bingo, where I launch a million things just to see what sticks. When a full share is only 8 points, and when there are no downvotes, there's absolutely no reason to absolutely inundate my followers with things that I'm not keenly interested in hearing their take on. Ultimately, however, it isn't up to you... it's up to the people who follow you or follow the tags you're choosing to utilize. If you share fifteen things about architecture, and I filter architecture, I won't see any of them in my feed. If you share fifteen things about architecture and label them #midcentury, #rococo, #postmodern, #ranch-style, #colonial and #condo, I'm going to filter you right quick because you're clogging global for me. Since I do follow architecture, I'm likely to go through and re-tag all of your posts to make things useful for the rest of us who follow architecture and then they can all make their own choices.
That makes sense. Gives some good insight into the community too. Thanks!
The cool thing is, if people feel that you are inundating them in a way that is clogging their feed, they can filter you. I'm sure that some people filter me, and I don't take offense to it. Post away!
Oh man, I'm too sensitive. I just want people to like me!
No, the whole idea of sites like these is to parse content through the community so that people get to see what they're most interested in. If it can't manage you posting a lot, then the system it's not working well, and we should fix it. So please, post all you want and let us see how hubski deals with it.
I notice that there's a lot of content on this site with 0 comments. Maybe it's just because I'm used to Reddit, but I think that the comments can usually be more entertaining and insightful than the articles, it's also a sign of a strong vibrant community. I think if everyone posted fewer articles of higher quality it would go a long way to increasing the amount of discussion going on here, and make it feel like less of a ghost town.
Eh. I don't know. If there was less content on Hubski I think I would visit and refresh as often, but just have less opportunities to throw in on a conversation. In my experience having been here for a while, less content hasn't necessarily led to more conversation. What I found led to more conversation was knowing and trusting a cohesive, active group of members that I felt I could talk to, more than anything. So I think it is relationship-building that could drive conversation.
Yeah, I'm kind of hoping that Hubski can become a news source for me. Like, a place I can go to learn about what's going on in the world. I feel like conversations are a good way to learn about different angles to a news story, but the stories have to actually be there. I'm totally fine with just one comment on an article, but I check sites far too often to not have new information posted on the regular.
I see what you mean, I haven't been here very long so my opinion is probably isn't as informed as yours. I also haven't put much time into finding users and tags that I like to follow, and usually just browse on Global, so maybe that's why this place feels a little empty to me.
I would encourage you to follow users and tags because I do think it can enhance the experience, but unlike Reddit, it's only going to be an enhancement instead of potentially a totally different view. (I have subscribed to so many subreddits and un-subbed from others that my front page is nothing like the regular Reddit front page. I even missed a lot of the Ellen Pao hullaballoo.) I like to browse global as well to see what I have missed. Chatter is fun and useful if you are looking for conversations, you can see what others are chiming in on.
That's something I've been confused by, having been on Hubski a mere 2-3 days. My entire front page is filled with posts with zero comments, and for the life of me I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. On Reddit, a post with zero comments usually meant a dead post no one liked--posts with lots of comments usually meant something more vibrant/interesting; on Hubski, I'm not sure what to make of zero comment posts yet. I'm waiting for my contextual processing to realign itself.
I'm new here too, but my impression is you should just post whatever you want and people will choose whether to follow you or not. Or follow individual tags of yours or not.