1) Syncretic griped in /r/TheoryofReddit 2) I needed 20 minutes to get my head out of my Mother-in-law's need to put fucking NFPA stickers on my 100%IPA so I ranted 3) Syncretic posted that rant to /r/bestof, where it became visible to 1.8 million people 4) 650 new users in 12 hours. Hubski is emailing me about 12 times an hour at this point from all my new followers. On the plus side, I'm not getting 100+ variations on "is not/are too" in my email, unlike my Reddit inbox. I'll be honest - I'd grown ambivalent about Hubski over the past few weeks and its inability to deal with controversy. However, when you've got 200 people expecting you to say something clever because your words brought them over the wall from Reddit, you feel a little obligated to provide. Look at it this way: the people who are happy with Reddit are not part of the new Hubski influx. And look at it another way: a big post on Reddit brings 600 new Hubski members. A big post on Digg brought a million to Reddit.