Interesting idea. Gonna take me longer to nudge people now, haha.
Sam Houston
· 1 month ago
That's part of the point of this update, but we'd also like to stress that you *shouldn't* be nudging all your followers. In most cases 50 people should be more than enough.
booiiing
· 1 month ago
well, i guess that misses the point. everybody is free to stop following me and thus not recieve my nudges. problem solved.
if i do something really extraordinary, why should i only tell a small elite about it? i rather want all the people who are interested in what i do (aka followers) to know about that special event, because if it's special for me and they're interested in me, it's special for them.
i would rather change the things that nudge does instead of changing how you nudge people. you could collect nudges and send digest-emails. you should add explanations to the email (i never recieved one, because email-options are the first things i turn off on any page, so i wouldn't know if that's in. but you state that people do not know about the reasons of the mail, so it seems not to be in). nudges should rather show up as items, just like new followers, etc. and they should be marked in a special way (different background, whatever) in the live-feed and maybe even pause the feed.
i think they're a powerful tool and mass-nudges should be possible. however, the frequency of nudges should maybe limited, so you can only nudge once per day (and no, you may not collect them to use five on the fith day).
just my $0.02
Vegeta
· 1 month ago
I personally think that the only thing that needs to be changed is the auto-suggest following feature that new members receive, which may have them "following" people they don't really care to receive nudges from. And honestly, how well could they know the people they are following if they haven't even visited their page or seen a sample post?
I think following should be limited only to actual act of manually following someone, because if you took the effort to go to their profile page and follow them, then something about them is interesting, and would be the equivalent of the interaction the friend system provided (as far as nudges are concerned).
I mean if you are worried about spam, what about the the "alert" spams we receive every time a new member ends up "auto-following" us, and then not ever logging back in?
The following feature shouldn't be any different than following someone on twitter, and personally I feel that the auto-follow recommendations seem more for the purpose of marketing, hoping that new members will see a post from someone they auto-followed and possibly find it interesting.
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Again this is constructive criticism, and I find this site overall very well done. I also can't wait for the eventual revamping of how Fame works, and the eventual upgrade to the News Section.
booiiing
· 1 month ago
the comparison to twitter is awesome. a feature to import friends from facebook, twitter, email, chat, xfire, etcetc instead of the recommended follows would make a lot more sense.
however, i found most of the people i follow via the spotlight because i failed to find a function to look for people with likely interests. thus it would be nice to keep the recommendation-system, but as an optional thing and available to all users. that way you can search for new people when you added things to your DNA.
Retodon8
· 1 month ago
The very first thought that came to mind reading this, was: why not limit the frequency of unique nudges instead (or in addition)? Like booiiing reasoned, it's possible I'd like more than 50 people to receive a nudge, although to be honest I don't think that will happen very often, if ever. I understand I will still be able to manually send out multiple nudges if I really want to nudge >50 people, so for me personally this limit won't be a problem or even annoyance. (To be honest, I still haven't even felt the need to nudge anybody yet.)
Still, limiting the amount of unique nudges people can send, should help them consider more carefully which content is extra special, to avoid the spam and and the boy-who-cried-wolf symptom when they just nudge every single thing.
I also agree with booiiing about the site collecting a bunch content before nudging me about it, but something along those lines is planned. Stopping following people who you think are spammy isn't really a solution. People basically aren't using the system as gDNA intended it to be used. People tend to use systems to suit their own personal needs, even be inventive to bypass restrictions, but I really believe in this case the fact is that the system is flawed and should be improved, rather than that people should stop following completely.
KatrinaTheLamia
· 1 month ago
I am going to say that this is _not_ the solution.
Some ideas:
* opting to be able to get various alerts as a form digest * A refitting on the dna based recommendation system.
One thing that should be required before you get a single spotlight suggestion, or are recommended any members to follow, is that you need a minimal DNA material.
I am going to say, need to have entered a certain amount of points into the system. This will be adjusted.
Some points would be decided vai: * Entering a game * Completing a Quiz * Giving a game a score * For each trait given to a game. * Writing a review on the game * Playing said game.
After enough points on these are acquired, we can say, "okay, we now have a slightly better idea of who/what to recommend to you on this site"
Furthermore: if you really do not like what somebody is nudging, then, well, stop following them, it is not rocket science. I mean, this is not MySpace where a base requirement on the site is to have more friends than Tom. If somebody stops being interesting, stop following them.
booiiing
· 1 month ago
so i made my first nudge with the new system today. i'm posting this just to give you an idea of the frequency of my nudges.
All Comments
if i do something really extraordinary, why should i only tell a small elite about it? i rather want all the people who are interested in what i do (aka followers) to know about that special event, because if it's special for me and they're interested in me, it's special for them.
i would rather change the things that nudge does instead of changing how you nudge people. you could collect nudges and send digest-emails. you should add explanations to the email (i never recieved one, because email-options are the first things i turn off on any page, so i wouldn't know if that's in. but you state that people do not know about the reasons of the mail, so it seems not to be in).
nudges should rather show up as items, just like new followers, etc. and they should be marked in a special way (different background, whatever) in the live-feed and maybe even pause the feed.
i think they're a powerful tool and mass-nudges should be possible. however, the frequency of nudges should maybe limited, so you can only nudge once per day (and no, you may not collect them to use five on the fith day).
just my $0.02
I think following should be limited only to actual act of manually following someone, because if you took the effort to go to their profile page and follow them, then something about them is interesting, and would be the equivalent of the interaction the friend system provided (as far as nudges are concerned).
I mean if you are worried about spam, what about the the "alert" spams we receive every time a new member ends up "auto-following" us, and then not ever logging back in?
The following feature shouldn't be any different than following someone on twitter, and personally I feel that the auto-follow recommendations seem more for the purpose of marketing, hoping that new members will see a post from someone they auto-followed and possibly find it interesting.
-----
Again this is constructive criticism, and I find this site overall very well done. I also can't wait for the eventual revamping of how Fame works, and the eventual upgrade to the News Section.
however, i found most of the people i follow via the spotlight because i failed to find a function to look for people with likely interests. thus it would be nice to keep the recommendation-system, but as an optional thing and available to all users. that way you can search for new people when you added things to your DNA.
Still, limiting the amount of unique nudges people can send, should help them consider more carefully which content is extra special, to avoid the spam and and the boy-who-cried-wolf symptom when they just nudge every single thing.
I also agree with booiiing about the site collecting a bunch content before nudging me about it, but something along those lines is planned. Stopping following people who you think are spammy isn't really a solution. People basically aren't using the system as gDNA intended it to be used. People tend to use systems to suit their own personal needs, even be inventive to bypass restrictions, but I really believe in this case the fact is that the system is flawed and should be improved, rather than that people should stop following completely.
Some ideas:
* opting to be able to get various alerts as a form digest
* A refitting on the dna based recommendation system.
One thing that should be required before you get a single spotlight suggestion, or are recommended any members to follow, is that you need a minimal DNA material.
I am going to say, need to have entered a certain amount of points into the system. This will be adjusted.
Some points would be decided vai:
* Entering a game
* Completing a Quiz
* Giving a game a score
* For each trait given to a game.
* Writing a review on the game
* Playing said game.
After enough points on these are acquired, we can say, "okay, we now have a slightly better idea of who/what to recommend to you on this site"
Furthermore: if you really do not like what somebody is nudging, then, well, stop following them, it is not rocket science. I mean, this is not MySpace where a base requirement on the site is to have more friends than Tom. If somebody stops being interesting, stop following them.