As a new user I don't think I have a strong enough feel for what's underrepresented. Here's my initial impressions. 1) What's really compelling to me about this website is the variety of topics covered. There's a breadth and depth of things i don't normally find and wouldn't pursue on my own. If this site got bogged down too much in any one particular area, I might stop using it. Like a certain other news site that leans too heavily toward feel-good STEMy stuff. 2) I'm way more interested in on-the-ground things people are doing in their local communities than the circus that is the electoral cycle. I've already blocked #sillyseason. The political system has near nil credibility at this point. 3) Current events, but not in the typical play-by-play, news cycle way. The site seems somewhat oriented in that direction already, just not in a self-conscious kind of way. Maybe a tag is the way forward for this, say, #newsanalysis . 4) Stuff that is challenging, but not pretentious. Critical Theory is so compelling, but the jargon that so many of those authors and their readership use tends to be impenetrable.
What, Reddit? It's not Voldemort, my friend. Nothing bad happens when you call it by name. Do you feel like Hubski is, or starting to, or on its way to? Like what? Perhaps, it's your opportunity to make it happen. People turned out to be interested in Russia after I started #russiabynatives. What's Critical Theory? I've never heard of it.Like a certain other news site
If this site got bogged down too much in any one particular area, I might stop using it.
I'm way more interested in on-the-ground things people are doing in their local communities
Maybe a tag is the way forward for this, say, #newsanalysis.
Well, this is only my third day here, so I'm really not sure. I've noticed a lot of users with a background in Comp Sci, but I suppose that comes with the territory. But even then it's a barely noticable whn it comes to content. There's been a lot of push-back in recent years against local ordinances and homeowners' associations that forbid gardens or keeping chickens. There's efforts at community-based conflict resolution. Sometimes this is to deal with teenagers doing stupid teenager things, which has kept them from getting caught up in the prison system. The hollowing-out of the American economy has left its mark on many small towns, but some are bucking the trend and revitalizing. Writers like Foucault, Derrida, Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari. It's what's popular among a lot of folks in academia. I know there's some really insightful stuff there, but it's only coming out of the ivory tower at a slow trickle.Do you feel like Hubski is, or starting to, or on its way to?
Like what?
What's Critical Theory? I've never heard of it.