Up-vote/down-vote rating system for posts/comments: Hells no. One-click "I like this" button for both posts and comments, to eliminate "IAWTC" and "+1" and "This!" comments while still allowing people to communicate their agreement and/or approval: YES PLEASE.
I like Facebook's "like" thingy, and I think it'd be suitable here -- it lets people know "I have read this and I like it", plus people can still comment if they have more to say or if they want the poster to know that they, personally, agree (or disagree!) with the post. And it would be fabulous if individual users and community maintainers could toggle the "like" button to be always on/always off, with per-post exceptions, and those settings would control whether it appeared on any comments to the post. ~ Rachel P.S. Also want a pony. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Janine Costanzo <[email protected]>wrote: > Getting back to the original topic... :) > > I'm totally in favor of something like this. I'm not sure we need a > thumbs down option (seems to encourage drama), but at least a thumbs > up-type option would be cool. Vox has (or had?) something similar: > [this is good]. And Facebook has this too, where you can say you > "like" something in your friend feed. It's quite common and I use the > feature a lot on sites that offer it. It's especially useful for > people like me who rarely actually comment on entries, but do read > most everything my friends write. Lets people know that I'm still > around! :) > > Janine > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Tree Wishes <[email protected]> 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. > > > > In an ideal world, this would be an option that people could put on > > posts that they want feedback on, like a mini-poll. > > > > (Just a thought... and if you've already thought of it, all to the > better!!) > -- http://www.lastsyllable.net This is not the sig you're looking for.
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