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thenewgreen  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Do You Decide Who To Follow On Hubski?

insomniasexx, what do you think of this idea?





insomniasexx  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that is a strong idea and it would probably be very helpful to you and you're overzealous following patterns. :P

As a purging tool it would definitely be helpful, but I've mostly been trying to come up with any sort of idea to discover users, not purge them after you've discovered them.

I've been thinking a bit about having some sort of user discovery page like the tags page but I'm not certain how it would work. I think it would encourage the users to follow those people who already have a ton of followers and deeper the "rich get richer" phenomenon that we've started to see. Also, scalability wise, it wouldn't work for long. People have already noted the tag page getting a bit overwhelming.

I find myself going through chatter or the global pages looking for gray names to see who these people are, what they post, how long they've been on hubski, etc. Obviously, not optimal but yeah.

Food for thought. Perhaps we can add this to the agenda for next talk. b_b do you have any opinion on user purging/user discovery?