https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53879
--- Comment #5 from Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> --- > Facebook (like), Twitter (favorite), LinkedIn (like), Quora (thank) > Pinterest (heart) I only use Facebook and LinkedIn out of these, so I'll base my reply on them. I was also not aware of any "like" functionality of LinkedIn and I can't seem to find it now, so I'll only base my reply on Facebook. :) * The "thank" link is right next to "undo" and "rollback", so missclicks cause more issues than, say, clicking in the comment field instead of liking a post on Facebook. That's why the secondary step is needed, and why it was requested by the community (and why the request was actually fulfilled instead of being ignored, like such requests often are). * You certainly can unlike Facebook likes at any time, while you can't unthank anybody ever. This is also why I think that a solution where you suddenly can unthank, but only for a brief period of time, is unintuitive. Of course, this is possible to do (GMail does, or did, it, allowing user to "unsend" an e-mail for a few seconds), but it needs a clear indicator that something is happening right now and you can stop it (GMail used a button on a yellow bar near the top of the screen). * The thanks have been widely advertised for being unlike likes - in particular because of being private (invisible to other users) and carrying more value (to me it seems like thanking a person for something is more "personal" or "involved" than liking something they did). You are now implying that's not how it is. > Given the general tone of interactions on the site, and the severe > decline in thanks after this change, this seems to me to be a > serious and measurable regression. If there was such a decline (Where are the stats? Are they public?), then it's probably caused by people getting used to the feature and stopping playing with it. (Or possibly deciding that it's not something they actually want to use.) > What is worse, accidental thanks being sent (to vandals or well > intentioned users making errors) or the serious decline in positive > user to user actions on site? This is a false dichotomy and a rhetorical question, both of which should be avoided in a serious discussion. Thanks being sent for edits one actually intended to rollback are obviously an issue for both persons involved, especially if the author of reverted/thanked edit made it in good faith. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
