Should the Community Feed have a notification like this: "@ajelly has added their story"?
In each jelly’s profile there is a section called “story”. It’s basically a place for telling everyone anything about you or just rambling about nothing knowing that the author is the only audience.
It is also another option for spammers to promote their things apart from asking spam questions or crafting spam answers.
There are some “suspicious” jellies that I occasionally find on the Community Feed. The thing is, if they really try to spam using their profile like I suspect, sometimes it takes them so long. And by the time they have finished spamming, the Community Feed no longer displays their names. I can never see them unless they upload an avatar or follow other jellies or any other things. In short: they disappear along with their spams if all they do is just spam with their profile. Not to mention some more jellies who I can’t see because they disappear before I can get to look at the Community Feed.
I’m thinking that if somehow we can add a notification announcing that a jelly has added their story, it will be easier to track down that kind of spammers since the notification will bring them to attention.
That’s just one advantage I can think if a notification like that is added. What do you think? Should the Community Feed have something like that?
Side note: this thread doesn’t only concern about spamming, but about whether this feature will do us good in general. If you think there is any more advantages we can get from this feature feel free to say.
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Might be nice in general, yes. On the spamming aspect, though…I don’t care enough. I don’t even think about spammers while I flag them.
It’s pretty easy to pick out the spammer by the nature of the self-promotional question.
That’s why they disappear so quickly.
@Blueroses I have just edited my question. Look at the side note :P
I’m sorry @Mimishu1995, I still don’t see a benefit.
If it’s a spammer, it is flagged and “poof”.
If it is someone I actually follow, I probably don’t need an additional notification that s/he has updated the story.
If I follow 150 people and 150 people follow me…
Every time I change my favorite quote from Hedberg to Aristotle… 300 people get notified.
That’s not Fluther. That’s Facebook.
@Blueroses I’m thinking that it isn’t necessary to notify everytime you change your story. Just when you add your story once. Like the “follow” notification. If I follow you, then unfollow and follow again, the Community Feed doesn’t notify the time when I “follow again”.
I would like it for following jellies. I am following lots of jellies. Some are long gone, some are veterans, some are newbies. Several haven’t even gotten the gumption to join in yet.
I have followed some to watch things develope, and see if they become involved with the community. Sometimes I see an answer or two I REALLY like, and I follow that jelly. It is frustrating when I admire a jelly, and they have nothing about themselves. Also, the same is true when someone new joins in, and asks a question which could be answered easier if we knew a bit about them, like are they a teen. Some jellies just make interesting updates.
I would like to know if someone I am FOLLOWING ads to their story.
@Mimishu1995
I like you. I do.
Respectfully, I say, it is our own responsibility to filter out the worthy from the unworthy.
I don’t think we need any more filtering to help us to determine that.
@Jonesn4burgers It is on YOU to write a message to someone whose post you liked. Tell that person.
Their progression will then become a personal progression for you. Don’t “follow” anonymously. Tell someone why you followed him/her.
That contributes to a community.
@Blueroses, I do sometimes. I feel more open to communicate with someone who has at least introduced themselves in some way on their profile. For instance, I thought I was following you, but I just double checked. I am now. I like what you have to say, and when I disagree somewhat, I respect your conviction when you present yourself. When I got to your profile, I saw that like mine, there is no real personal information, but some tidbits which make me feel you have said, “Howdy, this is me.”
When there is no story at all, I don’t feel welcome to leave a PM. I feel like those jellies couldn’t care squat if I like their style.
Thank you @Jonesn4burgers . You entirely made my point for me. I’ll appreciate your following me, check your profile and decide if I want to follow you as well.
I get the idea. But it might be best if it was just sent to the mods when a profile is added. I’m not sure why it should be public.
The Autobiographer Award is earned when someone fills out their entire profile.
On the Mod side, we have ways of seeing which new accounts have entered profile data, so we check them out first – so you don’t need to worry about finding and flagging all the new profile spammers. But if you come across one that joined more than a day ago, they might have slipped through the cracks, so please flag those accounts.
I agree that it doesn’t need to be public since the Autobiographer award is already listed on the community feed. Like @hearkat said, this is something the mod team looks out for and we do have a system in place to help catch this. Sometimes the spammers will wait a while before filling out the profile in order to try to avoid us catching it right away. That’s where it is helpful when users flag the profiles for us.
The Autobiographer award doesn’t even work with the new setup.
The Autobiographical Award has been broken for ages, but these Community Feed notifications are still a bad idea. Most profiles are spam, and there’s already a way for mods to see when a new user has a profile page. Adding these notifications would just fill up the feed with garbage.
Oh – ha – I didn’t even know that it was one of the broken ones.
I never payed a whole lot of attention to them anyway.
Now that you guys mention it, if I remember correctly, the autobiographer award broke when they changed the profiles. We use to put in our location and type in topics, but both of those areas are gone now.
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