Originally Posted by
goalie
So you're saying that the "like button" then called an "informative button" and now called a "site-wide reader feedback button." which you've been pushing is now something you're back-peddling on?
It sure sounded to me when
nsx started this thread that he was primarily interested in soliciting member feedback and ideas for whether something like this should be implemented and how it should be implemented. We've had almost a thousand posts of discussion on the idea, some of it productive discussion. I don't see how this could possibly be considered "backpedaling."
Originally Posted by
goalie
Now as to the "inside information"-you are the one who used that phrase and afaic, when someone uses that phrase, they are privvy to something that others are not and that doesn't come across as being up front and honest-it's really that simple. Whether it was not meant to be presented that way is another story but that's how it comes across to me
See my previous post and the respective included quotes of
nsx's previous posts. If you do not believe that my post and the posts of his that I quoted address your concern, then I suppose there is not much point in continuing to discuss this with you.
Originally Posted by
goalie
And as to not giving answers and "not understanding why you would expect me or anyone to present a fully specified list of features and functionality when the whole point of this thread is to find the most useful set of features and functionality and then discuss whether or not we want to move forward to a trial of some sort."- Isn't it the job of someone proposing something to have answers in hand. I'm not saying to have all the answers to all the issues & questions but at least have the basic abc's as that imho is the job of the presenter and not the job of the audience to be doing the presenter's homework
No, it's not, not when the person posting explicitly opens the discussion with (emphasis mine):
With the recent addition of the "Breaking News" alert button at the bottom of each post, I figure that Internet Brands has once again shown us that new features can be implemented if the desire is there. So I would like to reopen the "Like" topic for discussion.
I'm all in favor of taking some time to refine the idea and get IB's advice on implementation constraints
CMK10 I intend to poll TalkBoard members on each feature and put the most favored features together before voting on anything.
By the way regardless of whether anything happens on this idea I hope this thread serves as a good example of how to take our time developing the best available consensus. That's a large part of why I'm doing this on the public forum almost exclusively. What you see here is very nearly exactly what normally happens in the private forum.