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This is a great find, Ken! Thank you so much for sharing it. :) - Stephen Robinson

I only wish I could've attached a screenshot. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Used it back when I was too stupid to figure out how to share images with the bookmarklet (didn't bother reading directions). The Plugin is quite nice, but quit mento and went back to delicious - BCK

This looks great! I'l try using it for awhile, and see how I like it in action ;o) - Seth Greenblatt

Hmm, has anyone tried the Firefox plug-in on Linux? I assume that it'd work, unless it contains a Mac OS X or Windows-specific binary (presumably to manage screen capturing). - Tyson Key

Tyson: Looks like it works just fine... at least on Ubuntu - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Ken Sheppardson

Thanks Ken, I'll give it a whirl. - Tyson Key

We ought to have a "today" Likes and Comments counter, similar to how there are the "all time" and "this week" ones. - Tyson Key

Maybe you should be more discriminatory in what you like. I know you've liked things on my feed that had dead links on them. Meaning, you didn't even read it, just liked it and moved on. - Mattie Kenny

@Mattie - Good point. - Tyson Key

@Andrew Smith: hilarious... I agree with @Mattie though... You don't have to like everything. - Ted Roden

@Eldon - Presumably. I just get a "Oops, there was a problem! Learn more..." message with an exclamation mark in a red circle to the left of it, when I try to Like something now. - Tyson Key

Yes. STOP LIKING EVERYTHING. :D - Steven Perez

For what it's worth, is there a Comment quota? - Tyson Key

But I like Tyson's likes - Michelle Darnell

@Michelle - Thanks - Tyson Key

@Michelle I would like Tyson's [likes] a lot more if they actually carried weight like say a [like] from you might. To me, it seems Tyson just logs on to FF and likes everything in his home feed without discretion or reading it. I've never had the impression that he has read many of the things he's liked on my feed. Case in point: my rss feed threw up a few days and linked to a bunch of non-descript titled articles that were now dead links. Tyson [liked] every single one of them. - Mattie Kenny

Had he taken the time to click even one of those links, he'd have seen it was dead. And these dead links didn't have interesting or engaging titles that might cause someone to [like] it without reading. - Mattie Kenny

Hmm, I could always go through the stuff I've Liked, test the links and archive the content, and then leave a Comment, although that'd take ages... - Tyson Key

Of course, if I Like something, it's sometimes because I'm interested in the comments mainly. - Tyson Key

There were no comments on these items. I'm still convinced you just go around [liking] everything without discretion and it renders your [like] moot to me. It carries no weight unlike with other users who may [like] because of comments, but I still know that they've probably read either the comments or the article. You abuse the [like] button. - Mattie Kenny

Emphasis being on "sometimes". It might also be since I just thought the item looked interesting at the time, and I intended to either bump it, or visit it later. - Tyson Key

These weren't even remotely interesting titled blog items, Tyson. I think the norm is for you to [like] indiscriminately just for the sake of being one of the "biggest [likers]" on FriendFeed. I want to value your participation in my feed, but I can't. - Mattie Kenny

I sometimes "like" stuff without reading it as a way to bookmark it for future reading. I also have a private room that I'll reshare into if I want to bookmark something without advertising the fact (and thus boring my subs with the link). - Daniel J. Pritchett

@Daniel I bookmark using the [like] button as well, but this behavior isn't my norm. It's a rarity. I'm not convinced that Tyson actually bothers to read even 5% of what he [likes]. - Mattie Kenny

Not sure if I should spend more time to read and reshare stuff. The chances are higher that I've at least glanced at it, if it's made it's way into my feed "manually". - Tyson Key

I doubt it, Tyson. Just looking at your behavior on my feed tells me that isn't true. You should take more time to actually know what the hell you're [liking]. Why [like] it if you don't even know what it's about? - Mattie Kenny

@Mattie - I meant on my personal feed of content that I've shared into FriendFeed, not what I've Liked or Commented on on the feeds of others. - Tyson Key

@Tyson My mistake. I actually do value what you contribute in your feed, but your [likes] don't mean anything to me because it doesn't seem like you actually do like any of the items. When I see a few likes on an item on my feed, I get a little bit excited because that means I contributed something people enjoyed or found interesting. But if there are 8 [likes] and one of them is yours, in my head I only count 7 [likes]. You've polluted your [like] reputation. I know many people feel similarly. - Mattie Kenny

As I said, any ideas? I enjoy using FriendFeed, and I don't want to feel that I'm spoiling it for others, but at the same time, I want to know I'm interacting in a useful way somehow (since that's where the value is). I know there's more to it than "Like Racing", if that's what folks feel I'm doing (even though there are other turbulent/prolific users). - Tyson Key

I would like to suggest a new feature. Let the members choose a default feed or feeds showing on their own site, when visitors visit their page. Instead of having all the feeds showing by default, we should be able to choose which feeds will be displayed on the main page, and then visitors can optionally click on the other feed icons to view those feeds instead. By adding a link to the left side of the feed icons that says "All" will allow the visitors to optionally view all the feeds at the same time. - Stephen Robinson

I already gave you your answer: be significantly more discriminatory in what you [like] and actually read what you're [liking] or at least know what it's referring to. Stop going through your home feed and [liking] every item in there without a second glance. - Mattie Kenny

I would just propose that there is probably a cap on likes for a reason. - Her Lindsay-ness

Tyson: Given your stats "Likes: 10634 this week, 43367 all time" I think I'm going to have to go with Mattie on this one. I think you just need to raise your threshold. - Ken Sheppardson

Lindsay: Yep. And if anything, maybe it should be lowered. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

You could start commenting with [like] instead. That's what I did once. - Morton Fox