Levi's recent activity
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Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - allowing users to post anonymously? in ~tildes.official
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Comment on Default Topic View - Expanded Top Level Replies, Collapsed Lower Level Replies in ~tildes
Levi LinkThat seems designed to incentivize top level comments, rather than conversations, which is antithetical to Tilde's goals. I get where you're coming from—sometimes you start looking at the...That seems designed to incentivize top level comments, rather than conversations, which is antithetical to Tilde's goals.
I get where you're coming from—sometimes you start looking at the comments, and the first comment chain is so long you end up never reaching the next top level comment. A better solution might be giving the user control to easily collapse an entire comment chain from anywhere. Like lines down the left indicating the nesting level of comments that are clickable and collapse down to that level.
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Comment on Constructive critiques - a question on tone in ~creative
Levi LinkObviously, whether the original poster is seeking critique is a major factor. As for the scale of critique, whether the work is commercial or for pleasure plays a significant factor in how in...Obviously, whether the original poster is seeking critique is a major factor. As for the scale of critique, whether the work is commercial or for pleasure plays a significant factor in how in depth of critique is appropriate. If I post some photography (a hobby) asking for feeeback, I’d be expecting less in depth critique than if I post an app design (I work in user experience design professionally). Every person who uses an application will have feelings on whether the app is easy to use, logically organized, appropriate colours and fonts, etc., and are likely to be vocal with their opinion. When I’m seeking critique for my professional work, it’s against a backdrop of “anything negative you can say is something I’d hear a thousand other people say if I launch as is”. So the context I present my work in is important.
Part of professional creative work is that it’s ultimately for other people to enjoy/use/consume, so if you want to maximize that, you’re better opening yourself up to the most in depth feedback early on, and accepting that other people may feel very differently about your work than you had been. I think some fields may be more innurred to accepting critique dispassionately than others. One of the core principles of user experience design, for instance, is that it’s all about the end user, and their needs / desires / opinions are not the same as the designer’s, and thus the designer is not a good stand-in for deciding what works well for users. Everything needs to be tested and evaluated. Something like music will have a lot more subjective elements.
Part of opening yourself up to critique is that you can expect that the critique will vary—some will imply your work is flawless, and others will critique in contradictory ways. Part of the reason why Trin’s feedback was so good is because it thoroughly explains the reason behind the feedback and even offers advice on how to avoid issues even if the person being critiqued disagrees with the individual aspects of the feedback (e.g., re-reading it the next day).
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Comment on What can we learn from the life-cycles of Digg and Reddit? in ~tech
Levi LinkI think one of the biggest things is to not be reliant on advertising for revenue, so I'm already really positive about the direction here. Advertising always means that more users is better, but...I think one of the biggest things is to not be reliant on advertising for revenue, so I'm already really positive about the direction here. Advertising always means that more users is better, but content quality is improved by removing bad actors. Advertising also inexorably incentivizes massive data collection and privacy invasions.
Another side consequence of throwaway accounts is that it makes it harder to track / reduce sock puppets. So allowing the user to toggle anonymous posting is a win in that regard as well.