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user-inactivated  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Suggestion: hubski should propose new people to follow

Disagree completely. I think we should propose a list of tags to follow. Suggesting people smacks of elitism and furthers the "power user" problem we have with 10 percent of us submitting 90 percent of the heavily-shared content.

Please don't do this. mk thenewgreen



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mk  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hm. What if we had 5 names, but 4 out of the names 5 had less than 20 followers, or some similarly low number?

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user-inactivated  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doesn't that defeat the point of suggesting "popular"* users? And how do we choose those people? Etc. I would either leave the current status quo like b_b wants or stick to suggesting popular content via the tag system. I advocate suggesting tags because I think it points a brand new user right to where hubski is at its most active (which heads off a perceived criticism).

*where popular equates to interesting and knowledegable

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b_b  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't really like proposing anything to follow. The whole of the content can be browsed by using the global links, and anyone can find things that they think are interesting. People are smart enough to figure it out, I think.

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humanodon  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's true, but even smart people respond well to cues. Maybe a little label for the global buttons might help?

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