No. The point of this community is to A) write what's going on in your life and how you're feeling and B) interact with other diarist on a personal level. We're all already a bit lazy on commenting. The "like" button would make that even worse.
I'm split in half on this. A like button would be ok for things that you don't know what to comment with but you like it. But a like would also be about the equivalent of leaving a blank comment.
No, we are a community where we share our thoughts, both good and bad. A place where we can come to vent our frustrations and tell secrets...or just our day-to-day happenings.
We have the reader's choice , that is good enough.
I have a diary on Easy Diary http://easydiary.ewsentinel.com/ diary name minnie58 ...
we have a like button for diaries and entries there. Sometimes I think it can make a diarist feel bad if the like button is pushed for some comments but not theirs. Also the same for entries. I'm not a facebook fan.
I think it would be nice to be able to like comments, but not entries. If you like an entry, the blank comments or even a smiley comment is fine. But as a writer, sometimes I want to show commenters appreciation for their feedback and replying to each with "thanks" is just silly to me.
No. I agree with what the other comments have said about connecting on a personal level, etc. I think if there was a "like" button, then people wouldn't comment anymore.
NO WAY!
It will be too much like FB and become a competition like it does on FB. Also, being a part of BLOOP gives a chance for others to read about what's going on in their life and comment on it and I believe a "like" button will hinder that a bit. The reason I like Bloop so much because it ISN'T Facebook. Yes, pretty much everyone has an account, but there's all the "this girl wants to get a million likes; lets do it!" among other crap on there.
No. It seems a little lazy. As a diary sight I feel we are a little classier than Facebook. I prefer we keep it thoughtful here. If you add one though it wouldn't hurt a diarist like me though. I just wouldn't use it.
Well darn I was going to say yes BUT after reading the comments I see their point. It would just be nice to be able to let someone know you read and are not just a stalker. Most of the time people read and you do not know unless you have extra and can see who is reading. HUM I am torn now...
Don't care. Though for people who don't have Xtra, it's a way of having more knowledge of who's looked at their entry - more people will like than comment. And if people were still getting indignant about people who 'lurk', it would be a good way for lurkers to do more than lurk! But if you do it, you should totally make more options than 'like' - you need buttons for a 'WTF?' and a 'tl;dr' and a 'woah - I am so indignant on your behalf' and stuff!
I think you should get rid of the new coding that only shows one entry per person on the main page. I like to see if someone has done several updates in a day. It shows me how active they are. And for myself, I only get into the swing of Blooping if I'm writing several updates per day. But now I feel I have to wait till my entry has disappeared from the main page, by which time I'm no longer in the Bloop update momentum, and I disappear from Bloop again. So I end up only writing one entry every few months, instead of, say, fifty in a period of two weeks every few months. Though of course, you may be happy about that! But I had a lot of interaction with Bloopers when I was on a Bloop roll - plenty of people liked my entries! And those who don't can easily block me and not see them.
This is a diary site. If readers like an entry or even other comments made on it, they can leave their own comment and/or nominate the entry for Readers' Choice.
Bloop does not need to become another social networking site.
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