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

[kyrielle]

Which is nice but doesn't really address the original suggestion. I don't love the original suggestion - but if I were reading a photography community (for example) and had little time but wanted to show a positive reaction to a photograph, I might well "like" it. I wouldn't want to put it in my memories. Memories are for things I want to look at again, which is a very very small subset of things I like.

Of course, I suppose I could just use memories for that since I prefer to store things I want to look at again in a link tool, not some weird module specific to one web site. But I assume there may be people who use them who might want to positive-feedback something without wanting to reread it.

[matgb]

The reference to memories was specifically responding to this:

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

To me, the memories feature is a poor implementation of social bookmarking that, if it had been done well, could've beaten Delicious before Delicious even started. It's a memories/favourites/bookmark feature, that is due for an overhaul.

Admittedly, I did misread it--for some reason I read hte first sentence that I quoted as being "site keeps track of work you've favourited" or similar.

On Twitter, for example, what you 'like' by starring it is stored so you can go back to them--I think I've used the feature once, but it's there.