Comments on: The answer to the blog feedback problem is not more weblog-ese https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese/#comment-619 Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:26:47 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=202#comment-619 Most of the message board software I’ve seen also allows anonymous posting. A person can put in a handle if they want, but they don’t have to. Still, it is your site, and I find the weblog does work. I rely on the links I’ve been to being a different color than the ones I have’t been to.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese/#comment-618 Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:49:22 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=202#comment-618 Most of the web-based message forum software provides this reply notification email function, and I have found it to be very useful. I agree with you Dave, that it would be a good solution.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese/#comment-621 Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:58:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=202#comment-621 I haven’t read Winer’s full proposal, and I definitely agree with the KISS philosophy. But allowing freeform names and emails and a checkbox that says “email further thread content here” leaves the door open for a blog to become an annoyance mailer. I’m not particularly a fan of username/password requirements for public things like comments, even with the prudent use of cookies making it a login-once proposition. At a minimum, though, I’d want something in the email that would allow the recipient to tell the blogging software “hey, I didn’t really sign up for this! Probably Bubba playing a joke. Leave me alone.”

Minor detail and generally not a problem, I know, but with power comes responsibility…

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese/#comment-620 Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:29:57 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=202#comment-620 comment:
Bravo! Kudos to you and anyone else who sees the need to SIMPLIFY things in general and the WWW in particular. “K.I.S.S.”

I’m a rather simple person myself, and I deeply appreciate any efforts to simplify complex processes such that they are usable by ordinary folk.

Thanks.

Regards,

JHR
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]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-answer-to-the-blog-feedback-problem-is-not-more-weblog-ese/#comment-622 Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:36:07 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=202#comment-622 I’ve used that system on one MT site I follow and found it worked very well. …one check box to subscribe and another to unsubscribe.

…and one version allows you to subscribe without having to post a comment.

Yep. Do it!

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