Comments on: Social Media: Can Broken be Better?

By: AbleReach

AbleReach — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:41:39 +0000

@ Emory – Thanks for helping.

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By: Clickfire

Clickfire — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:18:32 +0000

Elizabeth, thanks for letting me participate. Speaking of breaking, when I attempt to reply to your shout, I get an error from the toolbar that says “Unexpected error: Error while processing function… unknown error friend not found.” Happened twice.

By: AbleReach

AbleReach — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:06:00 +0000

I think there should be more control over thumbing down than thumbing up, because it’s harder to shake a bad rep than it is to build a good one. I don’t know how far I’d want control to go — maybe if someone thumbs down for a reason that is not contextually relevant, like labeling a marketer’s cooking site as porn, that should result in instant an penalty for the person who did the labeling. If abuse is not blatant, too much control could put a damper on open discussion.

Agreed re send-to repeats. Have you tried asking the sender what’s up? Some people may be sending pages over and over again because they don’t seem like they go through. That’s one place where I’d like to see SU “break” itself for the greater good: limit the number of times a page can be sent to the same person within a short time. I don’t know how complex that would be to set up, but it’d go a long way towards keeping trust going.

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:19:48 +0000

Hi Elizabeth – there is one thing I would love to see broken and that is the thumbs down buttons for all those Internet Marketer haters. They thumb down perfectly good posts just because we have voted and reviewed them.

I also noticed problems with that SU button. I received the same message from one stumbler several times – it was like the button was stuttering or something.