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Tildes should show the name of user creating link posts
In text posts, like this one,, we can see the name of user who created it. But if it is a link post then it shows site name in it's place. To see who created that post we have to open the comments page. Site name can be moved to article details line where the date of publishing and word count is. That way both info can be shown.
Reason. Both information is shown at same place currently 1. which can confuse new users. for example. Notice after four times mentioning site name there is a username. 2. both can't be shown together.
I think hiding the name on link posts was intentional. It's kind of irrelevant information relative to the link itself.
I'm sure there were better reasons, but I haven't missed it at all.
agree. But site name and username shouldn't show up in same place imo.
I think it's actually kind of reasonable. In a text post, the user is the source of the content. In a link post, the site is the source of the content.
Thanks. That was good reading. I like reading old posts, they are like part of Tildes lore. Deimos' older post, What if we eliminated ownership of link topics linked there, discussing this before adding the feature. There were good thinking behind the implementation. And I agree with that. It just struck me today so I made this post, otherwise I haven't noticed this before. Seeing the username in link posts isn't that useful.
Like this comment says We can construct our own filter bubbles, but I'd rather be capable of forgetting snits at specific users and discovering new content without preconceptions about the poster. I think, at least from the comments in topic, old users had strong opinion on Algernon_Asimov due to some early behavior. Even good conduct might be seen as suspicious.
Here Deimos talks about early days link aggregators' approach, in reply to Amarok's comment. Interestingly I too believed at a time they mentioned the user who posted links but in fact it was editor approving it. It was never actually the username there. Likewise while making this post I assumed this was not intentional to show sitename only, but it is a well thought feature and should remain as it is.
Like this comment said my opinion might change as we give these changes time to mature before saying why they don't like the feature. I like that user. :P
Also this
For an alpha, the site's been way too stable.