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"I read this!" button/link
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My suggestion is to add a "I read this!" (or something along those lines) button/link to each entry.
Full description of the ideaThe "I read this!" button/link could be similar to Facebook's "like" button, where it could list who clicked the "I read this" button, or the user
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There are also third-party tracking tools, but again, they're far from a foolproof way to know who's reading your journal because IP addresses are too unreliable as a means to identify someone. Plus, someone who has images or scripting disabled can easily sidestep these trackers.
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But I guess even with that tracker, it doesn't necessarily mean that the person read your post(s), just that they were there.
As a sidenote (I'm replying to everyone to clarify my suggestion. haha), a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding the point of my suggestion (which I blame myself for not clarifying more :/), which is that I just wanted to give commenters the option to acknowledge a post when they don't have anything to add in comment form. It was not meant to be a comprehensive statistical gathering feature, just an alternative for those who want to let someone know they read a post but have nothing to say.
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there is no way to make someone click the button just because you wish you knew if they'd read your post.
I totally agree, and that's why the whole point of this feature (at least, for me personally) is not for the writer of the post to know exactly who is reading, but for the commenter to have the option to acknowledge a post if they have nothing to contribute in comment form.
I realize now that I should have elaborated more when I submitted my suggestion :/ at the time I did not realize that people would misunderstand what I was getting it. haha Ah well.
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Then I like this even less. You're suggesting a way for someone to inarticulate to type a one-line comment about the post to "comment"? Aren't we better than that?
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(haha, and now to be lazy and copy/paste)
I agree that this suggestion does sound like it's just enabling the lazy, haha, but I feel like laziness isn't the only reason people don't comment. Quite often friends tell me that they read my posts, but can't think of anything to say/add in comment form, so they choose to not comment at all. (which also happens to me when I read my friends list) I guess one could argue that that's also lazy because if they just put their mind to it, they could think of SOMETHING. hahah But I mean, to be fair, I don't think people should have to wrack their brains to come up with a comment, especially if it's about something trivial.
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I understand that this feature might cause people to just start clicking the button instead of commenting (which I do think the Like-button has sorta done on Facebook), but I guess I am optimistically/naively thinking that people would still comment if they actually had something to say. But maybe not. haha
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If we'd really have to go with a button I'd go with the "kudos" one from AO3 or the "like" one from FB (but I really don't think any of those are necessary here).
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As I replied to others, I am kinda kicking myself for including the stats-aspect in my suggestion, as that was a totally inconsequential afterthought, and what I actually wanted from this feature was to give people the option to acknowledge someone's post when they don't have anything to add in comment form.
I can definitely foresee people (myself included) not using it after awhile, but as I was telling others, I didn't mean for this feature to be comprehensive in letting people know who is reading, it's more for the commenter to have the option IF they choose to use it, whether it be often, to rarely to never. haha
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