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A lot of people think that this happens and don’t mark their home countries as visited..
This applies to almost all new users and users who mainly use one of the other sites, such as 43 things.
I don’t see that this should be a problem since you choose your residence out of already existing places and the request to mark it as visited could be sent at the same time as you choose it..
I totally agree.
It’s basically a defunct system which kills any personal messaging between users. People are so afraid of using the messaging option that they don’t even reply to messages they’d get paid smackers for replying to.
No defined opinion?
I used to think this should be done but then I managed to cheer someone again actually so I figured that if it has been a while since you’ve cheered a goal you could perhaps cheer it again…
Don’t know anything concrete about it though so I don’t really know what to say about this.
If it definitely isn’t possible to cheer a goal twice that link definitely shouldn’t still always be there.
Perhaps 43 people should add the Cher option too ;-)
An idea which has been around for a while and shouldn’t be too hard to implement.. right?
It could also be a question posed at the updated screen which comes after the “worth doing” if that would be easier to implement.. (“Was [parent] worth doing too?”)
It also seems to have a problem with changing the picture after you’ve pushed the preview button.
I agree. This should be made easier and more central. It ups the usability, enforces the community and probably provides outreach for the site.
All the info is there..
I think Daniel’s explanation is fair enough.. but I find the current system creates conflicts between personal space and social space. I find it a shame that if you don’t like how a goal is spelled and re-write it you’ll probably end up sharing that goal with no-one. If you on the other hand decide always to take the most popular versions of the goals you have you won’t have any control over how your goals page looks.
Regulating the spelling would be a kind of a rule enacted by a social contract, which is what communities generally do to solve such conflicts. We could even have it voted on.
Another idea would be to allow users to personalize their pages more. Each user could then get to edit how goals were represented on his page while still linking to a communal goals. (for example)
I agree.
I also think the whole “positive” approach is quite strange in general.
The kind of “Pleasantville” communication forced upon users is unreasonable and degrades the value of all communication on the site.
There is no good without reference to bad. No black without white.
I think that users on all sites should be given the opportunity to “boo” or at least disagree.
For example there is a user cluttering up Iceland with pictures and cheering them to first place with a number of alternative profiles overriding all other users.
Though I have reported him neither he nor any of his alternative profiles have been taken out.
If we could just “boo” his pictures then perhaps the situation would be a bit fairer to other users..
Been with you on this since you first suggested it. For those of us who are also trying to take care of non-English named areas it can be a real headache to hold up the current policy.
I think that if this would be implemented it would save a lot of work for people correcting problems and provide for a more streamlined site.
It might also give users a chance to personalize their interface a little (with choices such as “view places in [English]” / “view local names”) which again would increase popularity – since users love personalization :)
Places which have but one name, or don’t have a translation into your chosen language could also be marked with a star.
Each name could be added similarly to when one adds an attachment to an email, with a small box to the side from which you could choose what language to mark it as. A small field below the names could allow you to choose which name could be considered the original.
For the more problematic places one could just choose [ English (default) ].
Now that there are even 43places in other languages than English I think this is really becoming quite pressing..
