Lots of people use their LJs, and will presumably use their DWs, as news or project sites. The fact that your use of the site would not benefit from a feature doesn't necessarily make it a useless feature for many people who use the site.
If there's a feature proposal that would be useless for you, the really relevant question is: would it be *detrimental* to your use of the site to implement the feature? If we implement the feature so that you can opt out of it, is it still useful for people who want the feature? Is the feature *more* useful if we allow a very granular control of the feature (e.g. per entry? control of who may +1 that is different from who may view? who may comment?) In this particular case, I think the answer to all of these question is yes*, yes, and yes. But, if you (or anyone) has other answers to those questions, I think that your reasoning would be very helpful for us to hear. In Nora's particular case, I don't necessarily see the harm in someone saying +1; it's a pretty meaningless response. But I can definitely foresee people posting things like, "My dog died," and people either maliciously posting +1 because they hate you or, in a clash of DW cultures ,where in one part of the site +1=positive vibes for you and in another, -1=I empathize with the negativeness of what you have reported, people get their feelings hurt when they're already in a vulnerable state. --zvi 2009/3/19 Nora Bombay <[email protected]> > I think devices like an agree/disagree, thumbs up or down, or web clap > etc., are fine. On news or project sites. > > I know that I personally use my LJ as just that: A Journal. And while I > post things that are intended to be interesting, or funny, or just about > Britney Spears- I also do a lot of posting about things that are of interest > only to ME.
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