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thundara  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does Hubski's format and functionality solve the issues that Reddit now faces?
No, if someone who I do not like comments on a thread and other people upvote it, I will see it regardless of who I follow and will have no retribution, ignoring doesn't hide comments, and I have no way to downvote. Sharing content has come far, but the comment system still needs work.

Also, mk, there's no way to unignore the person that I used to try out something on this thread. :(





mk  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I agree that comments will require work. A plan I have is that an ignored user's comments will automatically appear near the bottom of the comments on a post.

Another possibility is that you can not only follow people, but simply mark them as favorites or something. These people would tend to filter up to the top in a post's comments.

Still thinking on these things.

    Also, mk, there's no way to unignore the person that I used to try out something on this thread. :(

Try http://hubski.com/ignoring?id=thundara. You can reach it through clicking on your name in the upper right.

EDIT: Poor Lu. :(

thundara  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You might also want to consider ranking users implicitly, based on how many times I have upvoted them, lessening the need for me to also manually favorite them

And thanks, I unignored him!

mk  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's a good idea. Much simpler.
mk  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·  
BTW, I am currently working on cleaning up and simplifying the UI. I'll fix that in the next update. It should be easy to un-ignore.
thundara  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Curious, is hubski open-source?
mk  ·  4589 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Not yet! :)

The initial news.arc code, (which is an older version of Hacker News) is open-source (in /lib). But Hubski has diverged quite a bit from that (HN has too, to a lesser degree, I think).