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Where can i buy one of these? - EricaJoy

Frustration is after u done with the cube, u find the buckle is actually in front side. - Baron M.

Good point. There are always ways to abuse the system. :( - Tamar Weinberg

How about granting this right for established FFeres? Trust reward system? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

That's actually a better idea. I see a few people who just use FF to establish their presence (and score their username before someone else does) but they never engage, which was a gripe of mine earlier this week. Active engagement should be rewarded. Just liking things (without commenting) might be overkill. The middle ground would make more sense and I think it can still be purely democratic (as to who can participate). - Tamar Weinberg

I'd just like to figure out how to squirt RSS into a room... - Michael Moran

even if they can't be fully integrated, support to Digg, vote etc would be ideal. There's no reason why it couldn't be done for Digg, they have a fairly liberal and open API - Duncan Riley

@Duncan - AFAIK the Digg api is read only. I'm pretty sure that it is. - Yuvi

This would be interesting. - Daniel Schildt

Obviously the other site would have to support voting in its API. This could be very powerful, but the question is how to prove a human is voting when all it takes is an API call. - raphaeL

dislike - mike "glemak" dunn

@glemak: Your reasons? - Tamar Weinberg

It makes sense so that there won't be dupes of the same story - one for the like on FF, and one for the vote on the website.. Huge room for abuse though.. - embee

that definitely makes a lot of sense - Nick O'Neill from twhirl

tamar: sorry was busy, same basic reason that robert mentioned above, ff will just become yet another traffic boasting platform to game and the noise will make it unusable - today ff is a great presence aggregation tool (i subscribe to you and all your services) plus a good follow on communication mechanism (this thread) - like's don't mean that much and that's a good thing, not much to game - i really like the purity of focus from a start-up perspective that the ff team has kept to - mike "glemak" dunn

tamar: one more thing, the /friendfeed-feedback room is the best place to leave suggestions for the ff team regarding suggestions or bugs - i've reshared this thread there so others who like to see and comment on these sorts of things can participate :) - mike "glemak" dunn

You certainly have legitimate concerns. It may work to entertain a possible democratic way of getting trusted individuals whose votes would actually weigh something, whereas others (who are here for the sheer reason of abuse) don't. I guess that it's wishful thinking, though. - Tamar Weinberg

Tamar -- as a startup, I don't think FriendFeed should have entertaining "a democratic way of getting trusted individuals" on its radar. "It seems easily doable", is much easier in theory than in practice. it gets very complex, very fast and figuring it out and becomes a distraction that takes away from creating the best aggregation/social information service. I'm not just a little against it at this juncture, but very, very opposed to them even thinking about this : ) - Robert Seidman

a pull down menu for all types of bookmarks, votes and shares would be great and would save a lot of time for people. ...and what the hell is wrong with bloggers looking for traffic. aren't we all trying to speak out? - Noah David Simon

In addition to the gaming abuse, Noah, what you describe is exactly the reason why I'm against it. Everyone will quite naturally want to use it as a time saver to drive traffic to their websites. That would become the primary usage of FriendFeed. I understand that some wouldn't mind this at all, but believe many would. - Robert Seidman