Twitter does that, if you set it to private. I dont think that most jaiku users would want to be private, maybe it would be cool if they gave a private option though. Would that satisfy your need?
Yes, I know you can set it to private, but it'd be nice to be public and have to option to approve. Ok, the person can still browse to my jaiku page to see my updates then, but that's ok. It's just that I don't want them to get my updates straightway, since I notice some people I've never known adding me. Case in point: this guy. Or am I being picky here?
On a related note, it'll also be good to be public and not have google index your jaikus.
And mind you, I'm ok with people adding me. That's one thing about being public, it lets you meet new people. But as I said, an approval option would be nice.
I'm the guy you mention, I can see what you're feeling, but there're really two things, it's similar to twitter: friends and followers. In my case I'm just a follower to you, but for me you're a friend (talking in the twitter terminology), so I can read your jaikus as well as my other friends. If you want to read mine easily you can add me as a contact. But I don't think the purpose of jaiku would be to allow to select who can follow you and who can't if you're public. If you're set to private then it's easy: only those you also add as your contact can read your jaikus.
Hey, yes. I understand that point. You're right about the part that if I'm public, it's probably not upto Jaiku. Another reason I was public is to get my presence badge to work. Now because of this, I go private and that doesn't work either.
I'm public yes, but it'd be good to have the blocking option to select who can in fact follow me. If I'm private, no one can by default. At the end of the day, it's just a finer degree of control to the user.
What would be really nice indeed is to be able to post in two ways: public and private, that way you could have the public follow you on public posts and your contacts/friends will see both public and private posts on the badge.
Hmm, yes. I'd much rather go with the block option. Two modes of posting simply adds more complexity than a simple block button. Besides, I can't imagine these contacts I'd want to block to be able to see anything I post in the first place, so that makes 2 modes of posting redundant.
Well, I thought two modes is a good idea, but I don't understand why you'd want to block someone from viewing your public posts, or for your public posts to appear on someone's else profile. I cannot understand this because that's the point of jaiku or twitter, it's like if you wanted to block someone from using your rss feed, that's not why rss has been created for. This level of control is not in the philosophy, besides can you imagine if you have a lot more users coming to jaiku, blocking users from subscribing to your jaikus would be a waste of your own time. Why not let it happen naturally? It's my opinion of course and some wants more control, but that's what private is for. NOTE THAT in Twitter there is a block user option, so that's possible to implement it, but is it really needed?
I have blocked someone from my twitter feed simply because I felt they were adding me in a spam hook type of way. Which is interesting because I added you as a friend last week on twitter when you added me because I thought your harmonica playing was cool. But your jaiku just has so many feeds it feels spamish, if I can say that without offending. If I could suggest, change your icon and page background to something that is you, and lets us know you are a person.
Of course I don't take any offense, don't worry about me, I only tried twitter and jaiku over a week ago and although I find it interesting, in order to test it I need an aim, that is promoting one of my websites, because that's what I'm currently doing. So I'm testing out everything, like adding feed, having more contacts so on my page it becomes interesting and I can discover more than just having a couple of contacts.
Now the time has come to think about how to use twitter and jaiku in my daily weblife, will they be useful? Can I integrate them on my websites? Maybe opening one account per website and displaying a badge, etc. I don't know yet, but just using it for myself me I, at the moment I don't see the need because I don't have a personal website/blog. Even the music/harmonica one, I wanted to do it for several youtube users not only me and it's not personal, it's about music videos mainly. So I need time to think about integrating jaiku and twitter like I could integrate youtube.
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You have to add them for them to be able to see your private updates.
Them adding you, lets you see their private updates.
2 years, 6 months ago by malach
Twitter does that, if you set it to private. I dont think that most jaiku users would want to be private, maybe it would be cool if they gave a private option though. Would that satisfy your need?
2 years, 6 months ago by ChristianBurns
What he said
2 years, 6 months ago by ChristianBurns
Yes, I know you can set it to private, but it'd be nice to be public and have to option to approve. Ok, the person can still browse to my jaiku page to see my updates then, but that's ok. It's just that I don't want them to get my updates straightway, since I notice some people I've never known adding me. Case in point: this guy. Or am I being picky here?
On a related note, it'll also be good to be public and not have google index your jaikus.
2 years, 6 months ago by ramkumarshankar
And mind you, I'm ok with people adding me. That's one thing about being public, it lets you meet new people. But as I said, an approval option would be nice.
2 years, 6 months ago by ramkumarshankar
Hmm.
So, if I can paraphrase, you don't object to them seeing your updates, you just object to them being able to make it easy to see your updates?
I'll write this up, and pass it on to the team for discussion - thanks!
2 years, 6 months ago by malach
I do think its would be good to have the option of blocking someone when a connection feels weird, stalker or spammish.
2 years, 6 months ago by ChristianBurns
Yes, that would be correct. I was just browsing a bit, and I don't know how to call this. Let's look at some contacts I came across. There's http://buythismobile.jaiku.com/, http://officialsexnews.jaiku.com/, http://insuranceassurance.jaiku.com/ just to mention a few. Jaiku spam maybe? Ok, I don't really get their 'updates'. But then, I don't want any of them to add me either.
2 years, 6 months ago by ramkumarshankar
What Christian said. Scratch my approval suggestion, an option to block a specific contact would be very nice.
2 years, 6 months ago by ramkumarshankar
I'm the guy you mention, I can see what you're feeling, but there're really two things, it's similar to twitter: friends and followers. In my case I'm just a follower to you, but for me you're a friend (talking in the twitter terminology), so I can read your jaikus as well as my other friends. If you want to read mine easily you can add me as a contact. But I don't think the purpose of jaiku would be to allow to select who can follow you and who can't if you're public. If you're set to private then it's easy: only those you also add as your contact can read your jaikus.
2 years, 6 months ago by wwwADSENSIGGcom
hello, where are you from ?
2 years, 6 months ago by buythismobile
Hey, yes. I understand that point. You're right about the part that if I'm public, it's probably not upto Jaiku. Another reason I was public is to get my presence badge to work. Now because of this, I go private and that doesn't work either.
I'm public yes, but it'd be good to have the blocking option to select who can in fact follow me. If I'm private, no one can by default. At the end of the day, it's just a finer degree of control to the user.
2 years, 6 months ago by ramkumarshankar
What would be really nice indeed is to be able to post in two ways: public and private, that way you could have the public follow you on public posts and your contacts/friends will see both public and private posts on the badge.
2 years, 6 months ago by wwwADSENSIGGcom
Hmm, yes. I'd much rather go with the block option. Two modes of posting simply adds more complexity than a simple block button. Besides, I can't imagine these contacts I'd want to block to be able to see anything I post in the first place, so that makes 2 modes of posting redundant.
2 years, 6 months ago by ramkumarshankar
Well, I thought two modes is a good idea, but I don't understand why you'd want to block someone from viewing your public posts, or for your public posts to appear on someone's else profile. I cannot understand this because that's the point of jaiku or twitter, it's like if you wanted to block someone from using your rss feed, that's not why rss has been created for. This level of control is not in the philosophy, besides can you imagine if you have a lot more users coming to jaiku, blocking users from subscribing to your jaikus would be a waste of your own time. Why not let it happen naturally? It's my opinion of course and some wants more control, but that's what private is for. NOTE THAT in Twitter there is a block user option, so that's possible to implement it, but is it really needed?
2 years, 6 months ago by wwwADSENSIGGcom
I have blocked someone from my twitter feed simply because I felt they were adding me in a spam hook type of way. Which is interesting because I added you as a friend last week on twitter when you added me because I thought your harmonica playing was cool. But your jaiku just has so many feeds it feels spamish, if I can say that without offending. If I could suggest, change your icon and page background to something that is you, and lets us know you are a person.
2 years, 6 months ago by ChristianBurns
Of course I don't take any offense, don't worry about me, I only tried twitter and jaiku over a week ago and although I find it interesting, in order to test it I need an aim, that is promoting one of my websites, because that's what I'm currently doing. So I'm testing out everything, like adding feed, having more contacts so on my page it becomes interesting and I can discover more than just having a couple of contacts. Now the time has come to think about how to use twitter and jaiku in my daily weblife, will they be useful? Can I integrate them on my websites? Maybe opening one account per website and displaying a badge, etc. I don't know yet, but just using it for myself me I, at the moment I don't see the need because I don't have a personal website/blog. Even the music/harmonica one, I wanted to do it for several youtube users not only me and it's not personal, it's about music videos mainly. So I need time to think about integrating jaiku and twitter like I could integrate youtube.
2 years, 5 months ago by wwwADSENSIGGcom