(these numbers do not correspond to your points but we are all smart enough to figure out what each responds to)

0. Be an ex-redditor or don't, but don't base it on Hubski or on having us convince you why you should be. Personally, I still use both. Reddit provides things that Hubski doesn't, nor would I want Hubski to, like r/relationshipadvice. I love it when it's good, but that doesn't mean I want it here.

1. Quality, not quantity. OR, speak only when your words improve the silence. OR, silence is golden. OR, "when I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed." (Say something once, why say it again?) OR, any number of endless proverbs about how chatter to fill silence isn't valuable. I don't want MORE posts, I want GOOD posts. If there are more good posts, great. If no one finds anything interesting on the internet today, then I don't want a ton of random "news"-y shit in my feed just so that it's there. I'd rather roll around and discover all the great things I didn't read yesterday, or last year.

2. Moderation is on the user level. This is a good thing. But FACT: no user is powerful enough that their moderation of your interaction with them will significantly impact your experience of the site. this is actually HELPED by the fact that most people don't submit a shit ton. if one person or group of people became responsible for a large portion of posts, the impact of their moderating choices would expand (your moderating choices can impact participation on your posts). however currently no one has such a monopoly based SOLELY on the amateur data-gathering i've done. I'd love to be able to crunch more real numbers but I've talked to insom about it and there's no real easy way to identify certain things I think. Plus no real reason, right now.

3. yeah, tags are confusing. i would suggest following as many on a subject as you can find; like if you like writing, follow writing, follow writebetterdamnit, and then maybe follow like "authors" or "poetry" or "nonfiction" or "goodlongreads" as well. just take a scatter shot approach. if you are following the right people (for example, people with your interests) it is unlikely you will miss too many good posts because you are not following the tag as they will share them anyway.

4. don't worry about "how to get others to follow you," that's not really what this is about. be yourself. because people want to follow people whose a) posts and shares collude with their interests and/or b) whose opinions they value. I personally like to only follow people with certain percentages of posts to shares but I've become less snobby about this of late. It really does help to follow people who share your interests.

5. discover!

6. here is a list of posts i have made you may find useful. i call it my list fer newbs