I guess part of the issue is that reddit used to be a news aggregator. Sometime after the Digg migration it became 4chan-ified and turned into a toxic meme-fest. Hubski seems to be much better focused on promoting good discussion, which was the reason I started using reddit 8-ish years ago. Of course, that's just because probably because the users right now are interested in good discussion. Hopefully Voat can keep their servers running so that more such folks are diverted that was.
Actually, I think it's how it's been designed. Yes, right now, there's definitely a natural slant to good behavior (sigh, so hard to get used to american spelling), but hubski's main feature of "being your own moderator" means simply that people who regularly post bad comments will find themselves ignored, permanently, by the rest of the community. It will be interesting when we get some people who deliberately try to game the system and see how they dance around trying to inject their poisonous methods of discussion into threads. My feeling is that the self moderating functionality will do a good job. Hahaha you cynic :-) Had the same though :-) Yeah, the contraction reddit is feeling right now is causing them to lose the very worst and the very best of Reddit. If the very best come here? Oh my.Of course, that's just because probably because the users right now are interested in good discussion.
Hopefully Voat can keep their servers running so that more such folks are diverted that was.
Well, the main problem there is that those kinds of people are often accompanied by other people who agree with them and do appreciate their poisonous methods as "spreading the truth at any cost". It's possible that those people will end up forming their own "network" following each other, and then the same political tensions that make Reddit and Twitter toxic places will destroy Hubski as well.It will be interesting when we get some people who deliberately try to game the system and see how they dance around trying to inject their poisonous methods of discussion into threads. My feeling is that the self moderating functionality will do a good job.
There's a certain danger in self-curation where you walk the line between following those who present you with new and interesting things, and creating a walled garden where you don't have to listen to anyone you disagree with. For now, my first impression of this site is that most people are here for the former, rather than the latter. But just in the way reddiquette went by the wayside in favor of a "like/dislike" model, I'll be curious to see what a larger userbase might eventually change things.