Hoi,
The great thing of personal opinion is that they make great arguments, they
have their point When they are presented well they are compelling..
HOWEVER, we are in the habit of testing many of these arguments.
This is a test that is bound to be interesting to many of us.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 12 January 2015 at 06:35, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
> >Yes, there's a risk we could end up with an alphabetical list of
> >hundreds of social networks to share an article on, like
> >Special:Booksources. Better than nothing, I guess.
>
> You guess wrong. As quiddity points out, we don't want
> <https://i.imgur.com/XGJHLvW.png> or equivalent on our sites. Such a mess
> of icons is ugly and tacky and awful. It would be worse than nothing.
>
> Adding social media icons is a lot of pain for very little gain, in my
> opinion. People who want to tweet about an article or post about a page on
> Facebook can (and do!) copy and paste the URL. What problem are we trying
> to solve here? If the answer is that we want to make it painless to submit
> noise into the ether and our users are only capable of clicking a colorful
> icon and using a pre-filled tweet or Facebook post or e-mail body, we
> probably need to re-evaluate what we're trying to accomplish and why.
>
> MZMcBride
>
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