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| Sigh. G-d willing, all present will not be seeing this in triplicate, but Yahoo would seem to have succeeded in losing the post on my second try. Maybe if I try posting from the site instead of by e-mail ... from a Yahoo account, which means that Yahoo managed to lose a letter which was going from their server to ... ahem ... their server, but let's not dwell on that ... On my first attempt to post this, much to my unpleasant surprise, I got a message which spread across the screen, and which I've since deleted from the archives for that reason. The spreading came as an unhappy surprise to me, having not happened back when I was writing the code on my own screen. I've sent the redone version of this post to a test group I've set up for this purpose,where it looked fine, so I'll resend it and hope for the best, or at least for something more easily readable. This post was originally submitted as a series of comments on a post by Otis on the Simpy Blog entitled Del.icio.us Heading South, where Otis doesn't seem to have seen it in the last three weeks, so I'll repost it here verbatim. |
A few questions I've been meaning to ask, and I think others might have wondered about ... 1. In the FAQ, you write "Q: How can I post my articles or blog posts on Simpy As a user, I find that this has greatly reduced my usage of your service, out of concern that if I make my profile anything other than an absolute bare minimum effort, that will be viewed as "spamming" - which seems strange to me. The word "spam" has a long established meaning that doesn't fit in with what might seem to be the implication of that rule. My Question: Let's say that I do as I was thinking of doing, find a collection of pages (probably philosophical essays written by others), and include some critical commentary about the arguments used on the pages to which I link. Would each of those blocks of commentary be considered to be an "article" and thus "spam", providing grounds for my banishment from this service? Or would they be seen as being legitimate content? What seems truly odd to me is that you'd chase off content that visitors to the site might actually want to sit down and read, calling it "spam", especially when there is so much submitted that really and truly is spam. Consider this screenshot of the simpy.com homepage, which I took about just a few minutes ago. One follows that "home improvement tax credits" link and comes to this, which, in common usage terms, really is spam. Wouldn't you like to see that signal to noise ratio shift in a way that's going to make visitors want to come back to your site for more? But the way I'm reading your policy leaves me thinking that if I try to do my part to make that happen, you'll toss me out the door for having done so. Is that a correct understanding of what you meant to say? |
2. In the FAQ, you also write Q: Are my Notes public or private? but I noticed that I could see my own notes when I was logged out, and that they appeared on the feed for my profile. Has the policy changed? I can see notes on this profile, which doesn't belong to me, suggesting that notes are publicly visible. Is that how fundu's profile is supposed to work, or is that a temporary malfunction that is about to be fixed. I'm hoping that you're going to say the former.Again, if I'm here to share with those dropping by, writing notes that nobody will be seeing, other than myself, seems kind of pointless. If, on the other hand, the notes are meant to be public, and are going to be allowed to stay public, then that's one more reason to get more actively involved with Simpy. |
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