Currently, chatter shows badged comments, the comments of people that you follow, and comments on posts that you have shared.
Soon, this will change.
After the next update, chatter will show badged comments, the comments of people that you follow, and comments that they have shared.
That means that ‘upvoting’ (circledotting, blooping, etc.) a comment will send it into the chatter feeds of the people that follow you. Comments will be shared.
In addition to this change, just as on posts, comments on your chatter page will feature "shared by" information indicating who shared the comment, and who shared it with you.
We are giving a pre-announcement for this update, because it means that comment 'upvoting' will no longer be anonymous. If you'd like to see the comments that you have shared, follow the link below, changing 'mk' to your username:
https://hubski.com/cdots?id=mk
Only you can see the comments that you have shared at this time.
We are making this change for two primary reasons: 1) Chatter and feed functionality will be similar, and the sharing mechanism for posts and comments will be similar. 2) It is our hope that removing anonymity from comment support will increase the support for thoughtful comments, and decrease the support for less-thoughtful ones.
As always, feedback is much appreciated.
I bloop any comments I feel are contributing positively to the discussion, my concern of de-anonymising this is it could give a false impression of my own views just because I circledotted something I felt needed to be seen but not necessarily supported. Let's see how this plays out.
Thirded. I think most people will realize that this is the case, that just because you share, it doesn't mean you agree. An older site I was on had a similar system and it worked just fine, though in some instances it made some circles jerk a bit harder.
I support this move, I like the increased accountability.
While I welcome the change, I do not think this will bring any additional accountability at all. It's a minor feature whose presence isn't apparent to most users, and aside from those paying attention to this post, most users will probably not be cognizant of how it works vs the old way. IMHO, we have to rely on other mechanisms for quality posts.
I would support testing this option. Every once in awhile, especially during contentious threads, I'm often curious to know who booped arguments for one position or another.
I think there is some accountability, but not a lot. The problem is, to find out who shared a comment, you need to travel to the chatter page and look for that comment (at least that's how I understand it). I know I personally don't spend too much time on the chatter page, so I suppose this won't affect accountability much, at least in my mind. Fair point ecib.
Is there enough utilization of chatter that this will be effective? I like the idea and use chatter a lot, I'm curious if other people do too.
Try setting your main page to if for a couple weeks. It mainlines you right to where the action is. Not the headlines, -the conversation. Not just the comments, -the latest comments. It makes the whole Hubski experience more immediate and lively feeling. Instead of seeing a page of links with some various number of shares that you then regard and decide whether you want to click, you see your folks talking, and oh yeah, they're talking right now so you can just jump right into a live convo.
In the best case scenario, this change will encourage people to check it, then stumble on things they might not otherwise have seen. Chatter has never really caught on like it was originally supposed.Is there enough utilization of chatter that this will be effective?