As Rho said: >>>1. Fully integrated twitter posting that doesn't rely on a third party (or rather, a fourth party, since it has to involve Twitter itself). 2. Reading page filters based on tag. This would mean not only that I could subscribe to (for instances) "all posts by denise that don't have the tag 'twitter'" but also "posts by mark but only those tagged 'dreamwidth' or 'perl'".
Yes. This. (and yay, subscribe by tag on the reading list! <3!) I think that's something that gets lost a bit in discussions like this: being rude or not is not something that the site should be responsible for. That's the people involved's job: to be rude or not, to feel offended or not. That's the social part of social networking. All DW can do is be the networking part: offer the most options that people want. Not everyone will agree on which of those features they would use, and no doubt someone will consider using some of them rude, just like some folks are offended (and some aren't) when someone says, "Hey, you just posted a four page rant without a cut, could you lj-cut it?". Personally, I love the ability to slice and dice folks' content to read,and I'm fine with folks doing that to my own content. I like it because it keeps me reading someone's fic when otherwise I would not watch them at all in order to escape the weekly political rants. No doubt some folks will say, "well, if you don't want to read ALL of what I have to say, then you shouldn't subscribe to me". But to me that's like saying your reader OWES it to you to read (or at least scroll past) all of your posts. That's like going out with a friend to lunch and saying, "I know you find topic X boring/uncomfortable to talk about and would really rather talk about Y, but you need to listen to how I feel about X anyway before we can talk about Y." I mean...maybe that's just me, but I find that more rude than someone cherrypicking which of my posts they want to read. :shrug: Just my two cents. Aster _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
