This thread is strange to me in light of Reddit wanting to view its problems in terms of Eternal September. Eternal September wasn't a problem because there were many new users as such, it was that new users were coming too fast for the existing communities to show new users the ropes, so the existing communities got drowned out. Let's ignore whether Reddit was really all that different before the Digg migration. This whole thread seems to be viewing it as a fault that Hubski handles influxes of users the way Usenet and (implicitly because of the analogy it chooses) Reddit wish they could have. I don't think it is. Hubski's mechanisms might be built to support multiple overlapping communities, but it's the community that exists I stick around for. I like Hubski being the place where every September ends.