To clarify, I was referring the availability of code for those little thumbs up/down clickable things. I wholly agree that a thumbs up/down thing would never EVER work on LJ or any other journal.
Sorry for the misunderstanding! On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
