theriex
commented
10 years ago Posting through to FB/G+ is effectively impossible, so returning to allowing comments within the site. Was hoping that marking a review as "Helpful", remembering a review, and/or writing a corresponding review would be adequate to address most interactions. It is, but people want to be able to ask a question or comment on a review, and that needs to happen reasonably safely. Thinking of adding query and comment buttons something like this:
Sample layout:
[[ .... Core Review Display .... ]]
Helpful Remember Your Review
Query Comment
Talvin Singh, Nina Simone, Adrian Belew, Afrika Bambaataa,
Grover, St Elmo's Fire, Toshinori Kondo, Josie, The Clash,
George Takei and 257 others found this review helpful
Donita Sparks, Toshinori Kondo and Janet Jackson remembered this
review.
Q: Roger Waters: Are you out of your mind? You thought this was good?
A: No, and yes.
...
pic Duke Ellington: Some excellent points in your review. Not sure I agree
with all of them, but really appreciate your depth of analysis.
*** Duke Ellington: A lovely piece, I found it very moving... Up to
255 chars review text here before trailing off into ellipsis...
***** Dittohead Wilson: This was awesome!
* Joe Negative: This totally suckedSecurity:
- Queries:
- Only allowed if mutually following. If mutually following but blocked, then the query can be created but is never shown to the reviewer so it ends up in limbo.
- Comment:
- Only allowed if same item reviewed.
- Reviewer can block all further comments from a given user.
- Reviewer can set their account to only accept comments from people they are following.
- Both:
- Only one outstanding query or comment per person per review.
- Review owner can reject ("Not acceptable", "Move Offline", "Other"/Reason) any query or comment. Only accepted queries and comments are displayed to others.
- Reviewer can block all further queries/comments for a review.
- Reviewer can report harassment to the site.
Visibility:
- Outstanding queries, and pending comments are displayed in the reviewer's activity feed.
- When a query is answered or a comment is accepted, the review is modified so it shows up in everyone's general feeds again.
Reviews can be read by anyone, but comments from anyone are not always welcome. Being able to use the site directly without Facebook/Twitter/Google loaded remains a requirement (otherwise pen names are just a vanity plate), but people want to be able to comment.
When you share a review on a social net, it should be possible to post a comment via that social net, using the native social connection semantics. For example if I share a review on Facebook, and one of my Facebook friends sees my review, they should be able to easily comment via Facebook. Ditto for Google+. Twitter semantics are a bit different but analogous. Email is difficult from a trust perspective because even if your friend knows your pen name and email address, you might not be comfortable with the site holding that information from them.
Embedded comments via Disqus or blogger http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/04/blogger-comments-powered-by-google.html are another option but this begins to put the site in competition with established social networks rather than a specialized value-added network. Would like to explore the native post-through first.