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20 Nov 2010, 10:45 am

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If Alex wants to use this web site to promote his future career then there's nothing wrong with that but he still has a responsibility to the Wrongplanet community and members. If WP members express privacy concerns about the Facebook "like button" at the bottom of each thread, he should still listen.

The problem isn’t exactly Alex here. Its people who are over reacting over something minor and forgetting the unwritten rule of two people when it comes to privacy and secrecy.

Unwritten rule? This is supposed to be a support site and people need to feel safe to post personal stuff on here while keeping their WP identity separate from other identities.

The fact that someone else can choose to hit "like" and share a post with their friends that way doesn't affect your privacy. Keep your WP identity separate from your other identities, and don't use the "like" thing yourself, and there's no privacy concerns.

Also, the ability to post on Facebook a link to a thread here, and say one likes it is NOT new. This just makes it easier. It was possible before, and the only way WP could prevent it is by making the messageboard so you have to log in to read it, which they aren't going to do, for very good reasons.

What about the issue of clicking the "like" button by accident while logged into Facebook? Also, the fact that people can potentially "like" suicide threads in the Haven sort of bad taste.

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20 Nov 2010, 10:58 am

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What about the issue of clicking the "like" button by accident while logged into Facebook? Also, the fact that people can potentially "like" suicide threads in the Haven sort of bad taste.

If that's a concern for you personally, well, be careful when clicking.

Overall, it's not a likely enough thing to happen that the board needs to concerned about it on behalf of members. As in, extremely unlikely. Enough so that it's certainly appropriate to let members be responsible for themselves instead of playing mommy.

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20 Nov 2010, 11:43 am

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What about the issue of clicking the "like" button by accident while logged into Facebook? Also, the fact that people can potentially "like" suicide threads in the Haven sort of bad taste.

I still don't get why Alex thought putting a "like" button at the bottom of each thread was a good idea in the first place. Also, what ever you think, people do have legitimate privacy concerns about the Facebook "like" button in general. I'm reposting a link to an article that Friskeygirl posted earlier in this thread:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/facebooks-like-button-raises-privacy-concerns/article1718090/.

Also some members, such as lene, have already left over concerns about this.

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20 Nov 2010, 11:58 am

The only privacy concern voiced in the article is about privacy issues when you use the like button, how that information is used. So, don't use it, and it's not an issue.

If you don't use the like button, then there are NO new privacy issues that come from it being here. That article you link says nothing at all that suggests otherwise.

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21 Nov 2010, 7:22 pm

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I do sort of think WP is a site where it would be bad taste to like threads.

I first noticed the "Like" button this week at the bottom of a thread where somebody mourned the sudden death of a relative. It seemed very distasteful. Be the first of your friends to like this .

There are many threads where people have shared painful experiences. Is that likable? Somebody could "like" the candor and the lessons that could be learned from those experiences, but "Like" could mean different things to different people. Differing interpretations could leave bad feelings.

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21 Nov 2010, 7:36 pm

Wrong Planet is my top priority in life right now. I'm very passionate about these forums. When I initially added the "like" button to the forums, I thought members would be happy that I added a way for them to share forum posts with their friends. I didn't realize that some members would be upset with the like button.

After spending a a lot of time thinking this over, I have decided to remove the like button from the forums for the time being. I apologize to those members who were using the feature. When the new forum software comes, maybe we can make this feature optional and opt-in. But until then, the feature will not be on Wrong Planet.

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23 Nov 2010, 10:06 am

alex wrote:

Thanks for taking the concerns members had about this seriously, as well as for the time and energy you put into this site.

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02 Dec 2010, 4:40 pm

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Thank you so much Alex! Just checked this thread for the first time in months & am delighted to hear the button's been removed

I've missed this place

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04 Dec 2010, 10:09 am

Hey Lene, welcome back.

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04 Dec 2010, 3:58 pm

Thanks Jono

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07 Feb 2011, 10:16 am

I hate the likes of Facebook and Twitter setting up their monopolies, don't add their plugins.

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07 Feb 2011, 4:19 pm

I don't get what's wrong with a like button. No one would be forced to use it

I personally wouldn't use it myself as I don't want my facebook friends on here (apart from the ones who already are on here), but why would it matter if other people did?

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