On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Tree Wishes wrote: > I've noticed that just about every site these days is emulating Digg, > meaning they have a thumbs up/thumbs down kind of rating system for > posts. > > And then, as I'm reading my flist today, I noticed I read a lot > of posts that I enjoy but don't comment on. It may be because > it's a close friend and I don't need to comment on every post, > or it may be because it's not a close friend and I don't have a > meaningful reply. > > In either case, I would love to have a button to click that > says "yay, I read this and it was great" without actually, you > know, commenting.
I'm fine with the positive, not so fine with the negative; I think that if you want to criticise someone's post you should have to have something to actually say, rather than just thumbs down. Besides, I foresee the button that goes either way to be used with great malice during dogpiles and by trolls. If all you have to do to join in a dogpile is click a button without actually commenting, and someone's post gets linked all over creation... Unless you've actually used an actual unambiguous racist or sexual/gender/orientation-type slur, outed someone's meatspace ID in public, or otherwise been an Asshat Above And Beyond The Call Of Temporary Internet Derangement, I don't think anyone really deserves this. Remember, these are in many cases going to be personal journals, not blogs or news items; some of us really don't want people to have the opportunity to thumbs-down our emotional rambles. And flock will solve this for experienced users, but I know a lot of people who didn't even think of locking their posts until they got into a situation, because it never occurred to them that 8000 people from all over the internet would be interested in what they say when only 20 people have them friended. (I still remember the days when I moderated hpslash at yahoo.com, did most of my fanac on email lists, and was shocked beyond belief that someone who had read and disliked a fic I posted at FFN and on Diagon Alley tracked down my LJ to be a bitch. That was 7 years ago, but.) **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
