Said the guy who removed tags.

See, this is where stuff doesn't make sense: You say you "abhor tribalism" yet you built a site that functions on personal (as opposed to subject-based) popularity. You even tried to remove every other kind of functionality. You - like everyone else negative - thinks I'm saying "fuck newbies" when in fact I'm saying "give me the option to not see their presence until it won't piss me off." It's a humanitarian gesture, really. Yet you, who doesn't use global and doesn't much support it, don't even realize that these citizens whose presence you don't want to alienate won't even show up for you unless they share one of maybe four tags.

Hubski is every bit as tribal as Twitter. Your every instinct is to push it further in that direction. Meanwhile, I'm asking for a change that doesn't impact site functionality one bit - once more, I can go through by hand and ignore everyone in #reddit - and actually gives new users a chance to acclimate.

I've already ignored four new users. I doubt I'll unignore them (I doubt they'll be here in a week). If they were ignored by default, our first interactions might well have been after they started enjoying Hubski for Hubski instead of that awkward period where they demand boons and circlejerk each other.