Facebook IS crazy - here are just a few of the 740 comments so far, what passes for content there [quoted verbatim, names removed to protect the guilty]: "Hw can i get it 2 my iphone/ wooow nice 2 here that/ Quizzes!/ yesssssssss!/ Grrrrr......still no landscape....???/ yeah! The current app is too slow, cant wait/ But old app of previous version use to work on os 3.0 continue to work/ coooooooooooool/ very cool maybe this update will fix my chat error/ hi i love u"
- ianf ⌘
Not exactly the same quality of discussion that typically occurs here (on FF) that's for sure!! Does anyone ever read the comments or is it all just noise? How do we avoid the same issues here as the popularity of FF grows? hmm.. food for thought!
- Chris Myles
We also get our share of "want!" and other monosyllabic ego-exhalations. But then the comments ffolding mechanism hides most of it. I don't understand where anyone, and especially a developer of some important new software, could find the time to wade through these endless and mostly worthless "contributions". So I can quite foresee a system where comments are auto-semantically-graded, flagged as potential "empty declarations of virtual love," or something, and discarded/ filed away from the sight.
- ianf ⌘
At some point, the ability to like comments may be a necessity to communicate back to the commenter that their contribution is considered worthy. Short of that, blocking someone, so you don't see any of their inane bullshit is the best medicine.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, liking (or disliking) comments not in current iteration of FF which, clearly, cares little about comments in the first place (thery're merely here as filler, steam-venting-off venues. Once added to someone else's post they effectively become that poster's prerogative to destroy/ delete them with the entire thread).
- ianf ⌘
"Not exactly the same quality of discussion that typically occurs here" = fatal last words.... fatal last words ;-)
- Jay Cuthrell