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cW  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Absolute ignoring

This ignoring, it is really state of the art. It is so complete and effective, so ignorific in fact, that I think we could call it shunning. Can we have two different levels? An "ignore" button and a "shun" button? We should also consider "exile" and "ostracize" buttons, and maybe something a little bit more subtle, something that just says "I want to make this person feel mildly misunderstood, or not entirely appreciated." A "slight" button perhaps?





mk  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ooh, I like 'slight'.

The recipient will get an email: "We're pretty sure that cW just slighted you."

cW  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can we please have that? Then, all we'll need is a hubski gauntlet to throw. We could also fine tune our insecurity meter under account settings?

mk  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A gauntlet is pretty intense. Perhaps a "bite your thumb at:" button.

cW  ·  4153 days ago  ·  link  ·  

But thumb biting, as we know, always leads to escalation. Still, you're probably right ... better not to out and out endorse the fisticuffs.

user-inactivated  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While you are at it, that could be a way to hellban trolls: crippling their experience with incomprehensible features. "You just clicked on user cW: did you want to send him flowers, buy him an amazon voucher?"

cW  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes! The choose your own misadventure approach to spammer wrangling!

mk  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe it just auto inserts this at the end of each of the troll's comments:

But I could be wrong. I am a petty person. Sorry if I wasted your time.

thenewgreen  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I detect some sarcasm in your comment. I don't like sarcasm, is there a "tune-out" button?

;-)

cW  ·  4154 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There will be! And soon! In the next gen, no doubt. In fact, it will weed out everything you don't like while populating your feed with only the desireable content you have yet to imagine you were missing. Actually, hubski does a pretty darn good job of this already, given sensible expectations. And I know it sounded like it, but I swear, I wasn't being sarcastic. I actually really like this new functionality, and may well make use of it. I just can't resist a good shtick when I see it, and I guess the theme does intrigue me: no matter how developed our methods of communication become, we are still left with versions of the same problems, I.e., 'why is this dullard casting shadows over my place in the sun?' Sad to say it, we just can't all get along. And, when you get down to it, the Amish solution to the problem seems kinda universal.