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comment by shanoxilt
shanoxilt  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Goodbye Hubski, Thanks for Trying

It's just too much effort for too little recognition.





humanodon  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dunno, you started off very cryptically. This is the most conversation I've seen out of you. #45thworldproblems was interesting, but after repeated attempts to engage (from my recollection anyway) and getting little interaction, it's pretty obvious why interest ebbed. This site is all about interaction. If you don't play, no one will play back.

shanoxilt  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was in character, so cryptic behavior is necessary.

humanodon  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, I didn't know that. Anyway, I found some of the work to be pretty fascinating, but then it seems to me like you and I share some interest in how words and reality interact.

_refugee_  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That project annoyed the shit out of me and I found it pretentious as all hell.

I mean, maybe you find my poetry jazz pretentious as all hell so we're even, but if you wanna know why people were turned off, maybe I wasn't the only one who felt that way.

Maybe the problem is that you were driving for recognition in the first place. In addition, as I recall, at least one of your posts blew up and was badged, and people began to explore other posts under your tag as a result. In general I noticed your posts ticking up my feed for some time. I'll admit their popularity seemed relatively short-lived but you could have also worked to prevent or mitigate that, I guess. Personally, I thought you were posting too prolifically, too enigmatically, and too ostentatiously, but don't take my advice on it - for some reason, even though about two people read my blog unless it's a really, really good post, that doesn't stop me from putting it up there anyway.

You should post things because you want to share them (or, for AskHubski, get feedback/opinion/whatever). You shouldn't post for attention.

shanoxilt  ·  3637 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, fuck you too.