You are addressing a different problem than the original use case. Treewishes asked: how can I communicate ME TOO/IAWTC on a post w/o the hassle/comment clutter of leaving a comment that says no more than me too.
You are asking: How can the OP know if anyone is reading what they are writing? We already have two solutions for your problem. In the first case, subscription is a public relationship. You'll know who/how many people are subscribed to your journal (although not people who are just tracking it, and subscription is no guarantee of anyone reading any particular post.) In the second case, the integration of Google Analytics should give you a better picture of traffic data for people entering your DW some other way than their reading list. Treewishes' concern cannot be addressed by having it be a neutral statement, instead of a positive one. And, yes, of course, people will angst over not getting enough approval. The same way they currently angst over not getting comments or not getting traffic. We can't engineer our way out of attention-seeking. 2009/3/18 Silicon Shaman <[email protected]> > > I don't think I could take it seriously if we called it that...I mean, > giving someone the "web clap" just sounds *wrong* ! > > But seriously, it's a good idea. Although I think to spare drama, it would > have to be something neutral, something that signifies neither approval or > disapproval. Otherwise you know users will angst over their 'approval' > rating. Actually, they will probably angst over how many [or few] people > have read and clicked their post *anyway* if we give them a way of verifying > actual numbers. > But it's probably better to know than not know.
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