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krisc  ·  4590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does Hubski's format and functionality solve the issues that Reddit now faces?
What's to prevent low-content posts, memes, silly pictures, trolling, etc. from showing up on hubski? I don't think hubski has anything to prevent that at the moment.

What I'd love to see on here, or even reddit for that matter, is a way to tag posts. Off the top of my head, I'd love to see a little carrot drop down item that would let you tag posts with things like meme, meta, troll, low-content, off-topic, etc. Let the group moderate, and then let users decide on a threshold for when something gets hidden. Only let people tag stuff that have been registered longer than a week say, to prevent people from abusing it.

People will always flock to content. It's why I went to digg orginally, it's why I went to reddit when digg became memes and pics and recycled internet funny pictures, and it's why I came to hubski when reddit became that. The cycle will continue as long as people who post great content post it here. I'd just like a better way to filter out the dumb eventually.





thenewgreen  ·  4590 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Krisc, thanks for the suggestions re the carrot drop down to tag posts. Hopefully even if the "dumb" come over to Hubski it wouldn't change your experience because you likely wouldn't follow any of them and neither would the people you follow. If you follow the link in the post, check out insomniasexx's comment there. I think she makes a good case with the twitter comparison.

Trying to figure out ways to keep the content high quality is always the goal. Thanks again for the suggestion. Keep them coming, we're listening.

krisc  ·  4590 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Your point about following people is a good one, but I'm terrible about browsing /all (/lurking). I really hate the idea that I'll miss something good from someone I don't follow. I'm a hubski baby though, so I'm sure I'll learn to use it more efficiently as time goes on.

It's a great site already, and one I visit daily. Thanks for all the hard work, and thanks to all of the great hubski community so far!

thenewgreen  ·  4590 days ago  ·  link  ·  
mk is the one doing the heavy lifting, but I appreciate the encouragement. I know what you mean regarding not wanting to miss anything. I "lurk" all the time too so as to make sure I'm getting all of it. That said, I've been pretty active with the "ignore" function. Just a reminder that if you find there is someone who's posts always end up in your feed and you never enjoy them, you can "ignore" that user and you'll never see their posts anymore.

We're all Hubski babies, early adopters rule!