On Friday, 23 January 2009 3:38 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 07:01:28PM +1300, [email protected] wrote: >> My inclination would be to keep a first implementation simple. >> To befriend a recipe, you supply a link to your profile page and >> an optional one line message (like the summary field on an edit >> form). PmWiki adds a "Friend since date". There are many ways >> to implement this, all of them trivial, all involving some kind of >> "Friend this recipe" button or link in Cookbook.GroupHeader. > >Indeed, if we go with the idea of "endorsements" [1], then >attaching a link to profile page along with a date is >as simple as: > > ~~~~ > >This is just the "signature" markup -- it adds a link to the author's >profile page and the current date and time. > >We can also come up with a customized page variable that counts >the number of endorsements on the page for various sorting and >searching criteria. > >We can also probably come up with a custom action link or form for >cookbook pages that automatically adds an endorsement (so that people >don't have to edit the recipe page to endorse the recipe). I see >arguments both for and against the automatic endorsement: for a link, >I'd like to encourage people to comment as well as endorse; for >a form, it clutters up the recipe page a bit and we have to >make sure we're protecting against spambots. > >> Keep the first implementation of friending (?) as simple as >> possible, but no simpler. > >I completely agree that we should start with a simple approach >and extend it. Perhaps a simple link to add an endorsement >is our best first step.
I have to say that I prefer "Friend" as a term. Some reasons: - it's shorter and widely used in other online community contexts - endorsement is (I think) a subset of friendship; becoming a friend opens up more options for the future that we haven't thought of yet - what would I be endorsing exactly? that it's secure, or bug free, or the maintainer(s) are responsive to questions -- without a comment, a reader wouldn't know what was being endorsed On the other hand: - endorsement is a more demanding term -- one would think long and hard before signing up, so it carries more weight - friendship is becoming devalued as an online concept So in summary: - I prefer Friend (endorsement can be a category of friendship, but not vice versa) - whichever term is chosen, I think ~~~~ may be a simplification too far; I would really like to see a comment associated with the name (rejecting any comments that contain a url) So ideally I'd prefer a form asking for an author name and a 1 line comment (noting the spambot caveat). Just to open up the concept a little... There is a really good model for FL/OSS Adopter Categories (different people have different attitudes): - purist/activist - champion - pragmatist - indifferent - free-rider - opponent People seem to have a pretty good idea which category they fall into and where their colleagues fit. Over time, it is possible that a spectrum of recipe friendship categories will emerge. Perhaps this is an irrelevant sidetrack... > >Pm > >[1] >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/42177/focus=42196 > JR -- John Rankin Affinity Limited T 64 4 495 3737 F 64 4 473 7991 021 RANKIN [email protected] www.affinity.co.nz _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
