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Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

So I ignore you because I don't like you. Has the quality of the content on Hubski increased or am I simply not seeing the content that I dislike? Ignoring users instead of topics promotes circlejerking and circlejerking leads to bad content.

The nice thing about Reddit is that no matter how large it gets you can always find a nice, cozy, small(ish) subreddit to talk about whatever topic you like after you unsubscribe from the big subreddits of the same topic, but you're never really free from ideas you don't agree with. r/games is a much better place to discuss video gaming than r/gaming, but even if I dislike hearing about, say, DRM, I will still see threads about it from time to time.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Test post - please ignore

Will trade dots for dots.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Test post - please ignore

Updotted

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Syncretic posts about deleting his reddit account, attracts SRD and circlejerk

Sweet, we've got #hubskidrama and #shithubskisays already, I already feel as at home as I did on Reddit.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Test post - please ignore

I remember back on Reddit before the Digg migration everyone was saying that Reddit needed an obscure and hard to use UI to keep the idiots out.

It's definitely not a failed site and it's definitely not controlled by

    basement-dwelling neckbeards
, if you look on any of the default subs it's pretty obvious that "normal" (young liberal) people run the show.
Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An important part of the hubski TOS new users from reddit should see.

Why should users from Reddit need to see this instead of everyone? I'm sure it has something similar in its TOS that is ignored as much as this will be.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Test post - please ignore

tanks 2 u i gt da mst dots in hbs ^________^

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Newbie here - have some suggestions/questions if anyone can help

I still think that having a date on the front page would be helpful. Less people are willing to have a conversation about a 15 day old topic than they are something that happened an hour ago.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

Thread

Not really sure which format is better, linking to the thread with the drama and having the big drama in the text or linking to the thread in a comment and making a self-post.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Syncretic posts about deleting his reddit account, attracts SRD and circlejerk

    Am I correct in the assumption that the #shithubskisays tag will parallel the fempire of ShitRedditSays? I'm pretty new to this whole thing.

I'm the one who "broke in the hashtag" here so I'd hope we could stay away from what SRS has become. I think the concept of a place to point out what stupid people say and laugh at them is great (as opposed to #hubskidrama, which is to eat popcorn while watching drama), I don't think a radical feminist hivemind that runs around dox-ing people they don't like is so great.

It'll probably be hijacked by the SRS immigrants, though, and I don't have any control over that.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An important part of the hubski TOS new users from reddit should see.

Are you? Maybe while Hubski is still small the admins will be able to ban people breaking the rules easily and quickly, but as the site expands so will the number of TOS breakers and eventually it will become impossible to moderate and enforce that section of the TOS.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

As long as Hubski remains "hip" the content quality will remain fairly high. As the site grows larger the quality of the content will slowly decline, especially if there is a vast migration of regular Reddit users like there was from Digg to Reddit.

There are already a ton of SRSers here, so it might not even last that long.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

That's probably the better way to go about it, it's still pretty tedious to ignore all these tags in my feed that I just don't care about or want to avoid. It'd be nice if there was a way to follow a tag, like #history, and have all of the posts with that tag be given more weight in your feed.

Pharnaces  ·  4363 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any nootropic users here on Hubski?

No problem!

I have no idea what inositol is or what it does, it was just in the cheapest Amazon Prime serviced choline bitartrate on Amazon. I've heard about other people taking it on r/nootropics, though.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any nootropic users here on Hubski?

Sweet, I'll look into giving Huperzine-A a shot sometime soon.

The first time I felt that really weird phenibut "drunkenness" I thought I just hadn't taken enough, so I took another gram and ended up sleeping for 20 hours straight. I woke up at one point and managed to crawl halfway to the bathroom before falling asleep on the floor. Very powerful stuff.

    I take it green tea has a less than optimal l-theanine/caffeine ratio?

Exactly. Black tea is actually better for the l-theanine/caffeine benefits because it's 20mg/14-61mg vs 5-46mg/14-61, where the ranges are highly dependent on the conditions in which the green tea were grown.

You normally want a 4:1 theanine:caffeine ratio, so 800mg of l-theanine for your standard 200mg caffeine pill.

My current regimen:

  2400mg piracetam 3x/day

  400mg choline bitartrate 1x/day

  400mg inositol 1x/day

  800mg l-theanine with 200mg caffeine 3x/day
if I take phenibut I don't take the l-theanine+caffeine combo, because all that happens is that they cancel each other out.
Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After 50 Years, Cuba Drops Unpopular Travel Restriction : NPR

That is entirely accurate, but doing "surprisingly okay" for their situation isn't exactly what I would call good. I watched a documentary on modern Cuba a year or two ago and it was very poor. Crumbling tenements built 30 years ago, junker American cars from the 50s still in use today, nobody has enough food, the health system is good in theory, etc. All in the shadow of the booming tourism industry.

They could be doing a lot better if restrictions on private enterprise were lighter and the embargo was over, the only people hurt by the embargo are the Cuban people.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Syncretic posts about deleting his reddit account, attracts SRD and circlejerk

D-don't hate us! ;_;

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After 50 Years, Cuba Drops Unpopular Travel Restriction : NPR

Do we have any idea who would even succeed him? Are they going to keep it in the family, or maybe have legit elections?

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hiya

I'm not a follower or a power-user from Reddit, I just came here in search of more meaningful discussions. Did I come too late? ;;

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

How do you go about finding them? I just look on r/historyporn, but obviously the people there have to find them somewhere else.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

I'm guessing that they'll get some more servers if the new interest is that high.

Pharnaces  ·  4364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

What would you consider it? If you filter out what you don't like then all you are left with are people who like the same thing.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

I don't see any mention of an API in the FAQ, but I'm sure it wouldn't be very difficult to create a bot that screenshots a thread. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to do that.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

Yeah I think I like it more, as well. It'd probably best to take a screenshot of the drama, upload it to imgur, and then make to post the link to imgur and link the real thread in the text and/or comments, just in case someone deletes their post.

Reddit's definitely better for meta stuff.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: London building collapsing during a fire on Victoria St., 1941

It's amazing that they managed to capture it as it was falling with old cameras.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

Well that was my point all along, you and everyone else who ignores them will not experience the poor content, but it will still exist. I definitely can see the ignore function being misused to ignore people who believe in different things than somebody. #politics will probably look like r/politics (i.e.: liberal circlejerk) after all the liberals ignore all the conservatives and all of the conservatives ignore the liberals.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

I'm sure some people will follow them, lowest common denominator entertainment is always popular.

Pharnaces  ·  4365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Floodgates

Indeed, indeed. I'm having a conversation with Laurelai of all people right now and it isn't as bad as it would have been on Reddit. Hopefully things won't change too much with a larger community.