Hubski specifically appealed to me because it is NOT the Reddit community. William Shatner described it best: "I am appalled by some of the immature, horrifically racist, sexist, homophobic, ethnic ... etc ... posts that are just ignored here. Why are these accounts still active? While Reddit has done well in getting interest from the mainstream I just wonder if by allowing these children to run rampant and post whatever they feel will cause the most collateral damage if Reddit is biting off it's own nose in taking that step to become a mainstream community." Of Course, this does not describe the entire community, but it unnerving when a community of hundreds of thousands turns a blind eye to such users.
One of the mechanisms we implemented here are the "ignore" and the "mute" function. This was born, somewhat outbid necessity. Back in December we hard a large influx of new users and many treated Hubski as they would reddit. If you find that a user posts content you don't want to see you can "ignore" them. If you don't want them to be able to see or comment on your posts you can "mute" them. You have some tools to curate your feed/experience here. Mr. Shatner would be quite happy on Hubski, I think. That said, we benefit from a far smaller userbase. If we were to grow to hundreds of thousands, we will experience some challenges. I, for one, look forward to that.