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comment by StephenBuckley
StephenBuckley  ·  4080 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Apathy

What do you mean?





JakobVirgil  ·  4080 days ago  ·  link  ·  
StephenBuckley  ·  4080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm fairly certain this only applies if your post gets shared by a "hub." Do I have that right? Am I missing something?

JakobVirgil  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

it is like 4 degrees of Kevin bacon you always have a hub with-in a coupla shares. take you you are followed by thenewgreen huge hub and firehose you are also followed by me not as impressive but I am followed by newgreen and mk I have not analyzed the full graph as I do not have it but I suspect that no one is farther than 4 steps from mk.

StephenBuckley  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right, but my shares don't automatically get shared by the hubs. If thenewgreen sees but never shares me, then it won't reach everyone.

thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess my point is this; just because people see something doesn't mean they "share it". Here is a shot I took the other day of my posts:

I can "share" something you post and it won't mean a damn thing if the posts aren't interesting to people. If I don't share it but it is good content, the chances are it will spread through the community anyways. Also, you've been on the site for less than a month and already have close to 100 followers. That's a lot, quickly (you post/share good stuff). I think that with time and as we change the architecture of the site and how people "discover" users, there will be more of an equilibrium.

StephenBuckley  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow. That is a pretty convincing list of failed posts.

mk  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's mine.

Marignally more shares, but many of mine get passed over.

thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's 4 full hub-wheels in there. Braggart.

JakobVirgil  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know if thenewgreen has ever not shared something. :)

StephenBuckley  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good point.

thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Check out my feed right now:

I've only shared 5 out of the 14 posts shown. That's about 35%. If you look closely, you'll notice that I didn't share some that are extremely popular too. So there.

thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Who else is going to light the spark and fan the flames of the next great art movement?.... Napkin art.

JakobVirgil  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

exactly why we love you.

thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You back east yet?

JakobVirgil  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

nope looking for a tow car.

thenewgreen  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Let me know when (if) you make it back out here. I want to have you participate in one of these. Think you'd be game?

JakobVirgil  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·  

sure although you know I have the voice of a dissipated Kermit the frog

thenewgreen  ·  4078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It will add texture.