I hope it's mostly the mid/late 20s plus age group. I am on reddit a lot but it's beginning to get really annoying(even with the filters) of some seriously irksome posts by teenagers or possibly even older(who knows, it's the internet). I honestly enjoy the entertaining aspects of reddit tremendously, but there has to be an informative and knowledgeable posts to go along with it. And that's what I'm hoping hubski has to provide. I just hope hubski doesn't get flooded with posts like...'ohh look! i star wars, i am nerd...make me front-page' kind of posts.
I'm hoping that the crowd who is currently displeased with Reddit's eternal September will largely migrate here. Hubski's been getting a lot of new users, including me, from that post on /r/TheoryOfReddit... As long as our users maintain a preference for quality content and a distaste for low-effort content, I think this community will flourish.
What really annoys me on Reddit is all the /r/aww and /r/pics posts that have no value whatsoever. It's so stupid how someone can take a picture and have a funny title then make it to the top, smothering something much better along the way.
r/aww and r/pics used to be one of my favorites when i first joined reddit. Not for any intellectual gain, but simply cute animals and some amazing pictures(great quality, content, etc). Now it's just...'oh look my girlfriend got me a t-shirt of [insert nerdy hobby here]...', 'my dog, so derpy...LOL' and majority of r/funny posts just being facebook snapshots. It's just getting really really annoying. And something worth looking at doesn't even make it past the first few minutes on r/new. I think it's because people lost track of what quality content should be. It shouldn't be what' redditors will upvote so I get tons of karma', it should be what interests you and that you want others to enjoy, regardless of the popularity aspect of it. But since majority of front page posts are legitimately dumb, new posters follow the same footsteps and try to post things that are more likely to reach the front page.That being said, hopefully we can get some entertaining as well as informative contents here. Besides, wouldn't want hubski to turn into the 'vent site' for ex-redditors or just angry redditors who no longer like reddit for whatever reason.
Don't get me wrong, I'll always enjoy subreddits I'm subscribed to and such, but in my opinion hubski is going to turn out better. Like you said, the quality just plummeted. Being relatively young, I've only been a part of Reddit for about a year or so, but even in the one year, quality has been noticeably lessened. I agree that there's no need for a new rivalry or anything like that, cough 9Gag cough, but as long as it's not blatant hate, I don't see why we can't discuss Reddit's faults and try to make sure it doesn't happen here.
I feel most of the "humor" of reddit is just repetition of old jokes. "You, sir bla bla" "Work of god bla bla" and people tend to comment just to comment. It's not fun anymore. I'm 27 and I've been looking for a new place to use some internet time :) I'm just so so tired of reddit (and facebook).