Hiding is a bit of a carry-over habit from Reddit. Basically if I've seen a post, I typically hide it to clear away the feed so I don't get stuck looking at the same thing for a long time until more content rises. That way I can see older stuff, which, on Hubski much more than Reddit, is particularly useful, since we're encouraged to continue older discussions. But in any case, I've just decided that I've subscribed to a few music-related tags ( #metal, #punk, #musicforpabs, #hubskioriginalmusicclub), and I'll just occasionally check the #music tag separately and see what's new (and especially to see if there's any secondary I might be interested in following). I think that's work well enough for now.
We used to have personal tags: Which would have helped you solve this problem. You could have ignored #music.thenewgreen if you thought my taste in music sucked. Or you could have followed it if you liked my taste. This was a way to get more granular in your use of the site. But, we essentially did away with them:
Well, they still exist, and originally I was posting music myself under #music.CraigEllsworth, but I just removed the tag on the posts I had them on because the way the tag is written almost suggests it's my own self-created music rather than music from known artists I just happen to like. Think it's worth it to continue to use the personal tag to help others out, or is Hubski trying to phase out personal tags altogether?
No, we aren't trying to phase them out. I lied them. I like them.
Time to put all my personal music tags back on my posts!