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thenewgreen · 4532 days ago · link · · parent · post: Little Kingdoms

IMO there are upsides and downsides. Agreed. The thing about Hubski as compared to some other aggregators is that we tend to get to know one another. Not all the time, but sometimes. In the past there have been instances when personalities clashed. I could see this function being used as a weapon too. I could make a post titled "Why sounds_sound is a no talent ass-clown" and then block him from commenting. That might be easy to moderate now but if Hubski were to scale larger, then it would get pretty difficult to ensure it wasn't happening.

When you started this endeavor, the primary distinguisher between Hubski and the others was that there was no "down vote". Moves like this sort of sneak the "down vote" in through the back door.

Right now the most popular posts on Hubski receive between 20-40 comments. If you were the author of one of these posts and you "ignored" a user, then their comments automatically fall to the bottom of the comment chain, right? This may not seem all that significant now, but when Hubski has a larger community of commenters, this will be enough to manage this situation. Perhaps if the "author" of the post ignores you, then your comments fall to the bottom of the comment chain in that post for all users that view this post?

I'll think on this more. There's no doubt that their will come a time when trolls will troll Hubski and such a move will seem more necessary. It's good we talk about this now.

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