[Foundation-l] Like button

[M. Williamson]

Or, Rui, perhaps you have plenty of original thoughts and are a very
intelligent person and you post all of your original thoughts, but it seems
a bit stupid and like a waste of space to say "thank you for saying that" or
"i agree with you" every time you agree with someone and have no
disagreement nor a more nuanced position to add to the discussion.


2011/8/10 Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com>

> Hi Milos
>
> I am not quite sure I follow.
> "Those who like would have to go to diffs" ?
> "which would leave the button to more engaged editors"?
>
> I personally find the "like button" on Facebook the dumbest idea ever - it
> means you are too stupid or too lazy to think up anything and just go
> around
> clicking "like" all over the place. It impoverishes the process, as where
> there is a "like" there could have been a enriching comment. For a
> beautiful
> photo, yes, for an intelligent quotation, yes, but for everything else,
> leave a comment or leave it alone. What does the like refer to? If I add
> "police beat up protesters", and someone comes along and "likes" it, does
> the "like" refer to:
> 1. the police beating up the protesters? ("I support them!")
> 2. me contributing the information - regardless of its quality? ("this is
> news to me")
> 3. the fact that the information was good and well constructed? ("this is
> well written")
> See the point?
>
> Rui
>
>
> 2011/8/10 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
>
> > Thinking loudly: I think that something like like button for edits
> > would give more reasons to continue with editing. Those who like would
> > have to go to diffs, which would leave the button to more engaged
> > editors and thus almost strictly internal community issue. Could be
> > discussed more about options and technical implementation.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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