Instant Feedback Button

[vickyblueeyez]

Title:
Instant Feedback Button

Area:
Posts

Summary:
Similar to the Facebook 'like' button, have a 'favorite' button, kudos, etc. Some sort of button, where if a person likes an entry but doesn't want to comment, they can leave some sort of feedback.

Description:
As somewhat of an author, it's frustrating when one doesn't get reviews. I may not get reviews but I do see when people favorite one of my stories on another site. That site keeps track of how many have favorite your work. Since many authors might be coming here, I think having some kind of like/favorite/kudos button would be great. Fanfiction.net and DeviantArt.com have similar options.

Poll #6525 Instant Feedback Button

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 278

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Should be implemented as-is.
165 (59.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
46 (16.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
44 (15.8%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (6.1%)

(Other: please comment)
6 (2.2%)

Comments

[quivo]

Ialmost feel like the Facebook mention might doom this feature in many people's eyes, even though it's one I'd like to have over here. I know the memories overhaul is coming, but I rather think this could fit in along the spectrum somewhere. Hitting +1 or 'nod' to a comment or post I liked or agreed with or whatever shouldn't have anything to do with whether I want to bookmark it or not, although having that option alongside would be awesome for posts and comments both. I wouldn't mind stuff I'd nodded at being put in some sort of stream where I could go through and look for bookmarkable things or trace down interesting discussions.

I also kind of want to put my vote out for this because I've always had lurking phases, where I didn't have the energy or time to comment, but would have have liked the option to go adding +1 everywhere. Dreamwidth having a culture of rich conversations and people saying stuff to each other in comments really doesn't take into account that part of a conversation, where you nod or otherwise show your agreement with what has been said. It often feels like no one else is watching when only a couple of people comment to something I've written, and even though I've lurked enough to know that's not true, it *is* true that there's no space for watchers and listeners with nothing specific to say to participate in a post like that.

The feature would obviously have to be opt-in and granular, so you could have nods on for posts but not comments, comments but not posts, etc, and having the system set up to monitor things you +1ed would be really nice. Like a way of saying, here's what I'm looking at, here's what I'm watching or reading, in a more fluid and non-commitant way than outright adding a journal to your flist.

My two cents on this, I guess. Especially as regards connecting the feature to a bookmarking one-- I'd hate having so many useless bookmarks if I had to use the system to 'like' things, and I'd also hate having to make my bookmarks somewhat public or countable to make them visible to the author.