I unfollowed you because you share and create such a deluge of drivel that my feed had become a bilge of banality. I unfollowed everyone else because the echo chamber effect created by not following tags made Hubski vastly more interesting logged out than logged in. Lately I've been using Hubski at cross purposes to mk's intent - I subscribe to nothing, I go on vast ignoring sprees (anyone and everyone that has ever tagged or shared #circlejerk, #DAE, #drama, etc), and I cruise everything from a less-than-complete circle (which filters out all the "me2ism") to a "somebody shared this" circle.
kleinbl00 can be kinda harsh sometimes, but I have to say, ever since your "Reddit account deletion" post your followers have been the majority of my ignore list. The #circlejerk #braveryjerk crowd are all about you! So I unfollowed you for the same reason (though I wouldn't say that your shares create a deluge of drivel, because, well, I really don't know what saying that accomplishes). How has your experience changed recently? For better/for worse? I'm pretty curious how being followed by a certain crowd affects a user, and you seem like the perfect case study for that.
> The #circlejerk #braveryjerk crowd are all about you! I was under the impression the tagging system meant that it was irrelevant so long as they stick to those tags (which they've been doing aside from syncretics thread which got flooded and jerked hard).
Sort of, but the ignore system makes it so that their posts can't make it to my feed, and I'm not going to see them in my posts. So I've done that too.
I thought you could ignore particular tags, so that say - if you've got someone who post half good content, half circlejerking - only the good stuff will show up. Still seems like it would be a good fix, provided people use the correct tags. It'd at least be worth a shot, before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Since tags are easier to make than they are to block, it's safer to ignore a user than a tag. And jerkers are anything but consistent with tags. #circlejerk, #redditjerk, #test... it goes on and on and on. Why would I bother with someone whose interests run so completely counter to what I want to use this site for? Why wouldn't I throw the baby out with the bathwater when there are so many babies and so much bathwater? Well, I'm talking to you right now and I have you ignored. It's not like I'll never see these people- we'll have some posts in common and when someone seems like not a jerk and I have them ignored, I'll look into their shares and if they're overwhelmingly sharing good content, then I'll follow them and think I was wrong.
I apologize for the "circlejerk" crowd following me over - they did it because they thought it would be funny, I didn't ask them to. In fact, I've ignored all of the "circlejerky" tags that they use like #circlejerk and #braveryjerk, so my feed is roughly the same as it was before. I'm a bit confused as to why they caused you to unfollow me, though... was I posting or sharing things that you did not want to see in your feed?
No, but when you post or share something they tend to be around it, because they follow you.
I'm sorry if I come across as if I'm on a high horse, but people, do you really think this adds to anything at all? If anything, this evokes negative emotions. I'd suggest the tried and true approach: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.