As it is now, if I don't want to see a particular friends blog entries, the only way to avoid having them in your blog module is to remove the person as a friend. I don't want to do this. But there are some friends who post so many blog entries it overwhelms my module and I'd like to give some other friends blogs priority on my homepage.
Suggestion: Allow me to choose from my friends list which friends blogs I do and don't want to see on my homepage module. Have them all selected by default, and allow me to uncheck the blogs I don't want to see.
Thank you.
Suggestion: Allow me to choose from my friends list which friends blogs I do and don't want to see on my homepage module. Have them all selected by default, and allow me to uncheck the blogs I don't want to see.
Thank you.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Mon, December 11, 2006 - 6:22 PMI second this. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Mon, December 11, 2006 - 6:36 PMI third this splendid idea.
It's been suggested multiple times before, too.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Mon, December 11, 2006 - 7:23 PMyes please. please please please.
I'd still love to be able to dismiss them from showing up on a blog by blog basis. Maybe I want to read the new personal one someone posted...but Im really quite done with their other silly 4 ones.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 3:28 AMI'd like to be able to hide my fiend's list entirely. Perhaps that's not theidea of tribe... but I'm beginning to think people judge one another based on their friend's list. Is this high school or something? -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 3:28 AMfiends too but I meant to say friends
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 11:17 AMYou can remove your friend's list from your homepage or profile by clicking the "edit" link in the top right corner of the module, and then clicking "remove this module". -
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Digression #44567
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 11:18 AMCan't they just click on the number below your picture? -
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Re: Digression #44567
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 1:32 PMyes... I just thought they might want to remove the module...
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 11:55 AMI don't want to remove the blog module though. I want to select which friends blogs I want included in the module.
Nor do I want to remove the person as a friend.
You know how you can select which friends you want to have displayed in the friends module? I want the same thing in the blogs module. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 1:33 PMI understood; I was responding to Skylar's "I'd like to be able to hide my fiend's list entirely." post. -
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Tue, December 12, 2006 - 1:40 PMOops... sorry. A hazard of viewing threads 'newest first'.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 9:38 AMIt would be swell if blog-showing could be a module like the friends list, where you can group 'em.
So, you might have a group of blogs called "Whiny-ass friends who gotta tell me about today's drama" and another one called "Yet another quote from someone smarter than they are" and one called "Pseudo-intellectual meanderings" and one called "easily digestible, but at least redeemably cute" and so on.
In each of the blog modules, you're offered a list of which friends to include -- just like the friends modules on your profile page. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 9:55 AM"So, you might have a group of blogs called "Whiny-ass friends who gotta tell me about today's drama""
And, you can't remove them from your friends list because they'll whine about it all over their blog how you're not a 'real' friend because you don't want to read and comment on their ramblings. You just can't win! -
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Tue, December 12, 2006 - 10:14 AM"And, you can't remove them from your friends list because they'll whine about it all over their blog how you're not a 'real' friend because you don't want to read and comment on their ramblings. You just can't win!"
Oh, well, there are a couple of solutions to that. You could cal the group anything you want, such as "Daily Strugglers", which is a lot like "Whiny-Ass Friends", except that they feel better.
And why in the name of Zeus' Spinning Testicles would anyone want as a friend someone who dogs them about commenting and would bitch if they were dumped as a friend? That's like running into a cinder-block wall a few dozen times to make sure each tooth has a unique "signature crack". Blech. With friends like that, who needs enemas?
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 10:11 AMyes...I'm not sure why we can't do that now.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Tue, December 12, 2006 - 11:19 AMThis has been recommended several times before, and while we like the idea, it will require a lot of work, so it's not on the roadmap right now. -
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 7:33 AMAs opposed to selecting which friends blogs you want to see, perhaps having an option to subscribe to specific blogs would be an alternative? I find myself in the position now where I'm going to start removing friends from my list simply because I don't want to see their blogs because they blog too much. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Thu, January 4, 2007 - 9:03 AMHave you tried jotting them a note? Someone once sent me a note asking me to chill and I had no idea they were having troubles. It made sense to me, so I try to keep it to two a day and spaced out well.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Thu, January 4, 2007 - 12:12 PMDepending on how many of your friends blog, even two a day can be too much. If they're interesting, great. But some people blog the most mundane things. I don't think it's appropriate to ask someone to blog less though, if it makes them happy they should be allowed to blog all they want. -
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 1:09 PM"I don't think it's appropriate to ask someone to blog less though, if it makes them happy they should be allowed to blog all they want."
Wellllll, you can always mention that this is a problem for you and see what they do. If my buddy hadn't mentioned anything, I would still be posting a lot of things. I'm glad he said something. That seems more straightforward than just dropping me as a friend. I'd eventually would have noticed and I might have come to some Unfortunate Conclusion (as we occasionally interact in the Real World).
"Depending on how many of your friends blog, even two a day can be too much. "
Yep. I try to do a read-through of the new ones only a couple times a day.
"If they're interesting, great. But some people blog the most mundane things."
Funny! I ran across someone on tribe and happened to glance at her blog, and there was, like, an entry every hour, usually one line or two at the most and they really truly were brain-dead, such as "God I'm bored" or "Lunch was stupid." and so forth. I flagged her in my brain as "Must never accept a friend invite from". Lucky me, she's never offered. 8) But I'd probably still reject the invite.
Woooo, I digressed!
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Thu, January 4, 2007 - 1:24 PMI *have* booted people from my FL for posting a lot of pictures I really shouldn't be seeing while I'm work (and yes, I do use Tribe for work-related stuff sometimes!!), and I'm very close to booting someone else for her hourly blogging.
I think that booting someone because of their blogging habits sort of destroys the social networking purpose of Tribe. LiveJournal has a very elegant solution to their blogging. I have a list of people I read, I have a list of people who can read my stuff, I have a list of people who can only see my posts about dinner parties, etc. But there are a lot of people who are not on the "to be read" list whom I like in person but who clutter up my reader with a lot of posts about rats *yawn*.
I'm not certain that Tribe can do these things right now, but LJ is an excellent model for how it can work. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, February 2, 2007 - 4:07 AMI second that, Isara...
There is someone on my Freinds list who is not a prolific diary-blogger, but does have a case of
Diarrhea of the Lens-cap....
I have thought about just letting him go, but he is freinds with many real life friends of mine who I don't get to see very often.
More control over options & settings is nice, whenever possible
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Thu, January 4, 2007 - 9:34 AMThis is a much more interesting idea. I've been looking into building a blog aggregator plugin that would allow you to read one or more tribe (or not) blogs in one plugin. this would be much simpler to implement but it would require more work to set up. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Sun, January 7, 2007 - 10:50 AMPerhaps a little "x" on the top right corner of each blog entry that appears on your homepage. This would allow us to close or remove the extraneous blog entry in favor of other, more engaging blogs. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Sun, January 7, 2007 - 11:05 AMoooohh!! that would be cool!
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Wed, January 10, 2007 - 1:23 PMthrow my vote onto this pile as well. i have dropped friends for excessive blogging in the past and if i'm not given the option of choosing who's blogs i can read, i will again. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Wed, January 10, 2007 - 3:16 PMCan't Tribe restrict a user from blogging more than once a day? I mean, if you really need to say more, just edit the entry, instead of clogging up your friend's modules with your entries and bumping others from view. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Wed, January 10, 2007 - 3:20 PM"Can't Tribe restrict a user from blogging more than once a day?"
Oh, THAT'LL be a well-received idea. 8)
I think of all the ideas I've read, the idea of forcing (not asking, or requesting, mind you, but FORCING) the "offending" blogger (who, let's face it, is actually doing nothing wrong) to change how they're doing things is the most...
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Wed, January 10, 2007 - 5:27 PMI guess it woud be better to un-friend those who are blogging 3-5x a day, unless you have a suggestion about how to politely teach them better . . . manners. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Thu, January 11, 2007 - 9:01 AM"...unless you have a suggestion about how to politely teach them better . . . manners."
All you can do is mention that it seems to be a problem for you. They might say "whoops -- I never knew" or they might say "Blow." They might adjust what they do, or they might lose friends.
brainstorm.tribe.net/thread/...5e6dfb3e
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Wed, January 10, 2007 - 10:22 PMAs I see it, there are a lot of people who enjoy participating in frequent "Hi I'm still here" blogs. And that's okay. I don't think anyone should be limited from blogging anything they like. My issue is that just because I don't want to be inundated with someones blogs, doesn't mean I don't want them as a Tribe friend. They often have other great things I want to be privy too. But the way it works today, the only way to block their blogs, is to remove them as a friend. And that's not conducive to our community building, or what Tribe is all about, IMHO.
I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to try and dictate what people blog, or how often they blog. But it would be really great if I could simply remove their blog posts from my homepage. They don't even have to know about it... I'd like them to continue to feel free to speak their mind. I just want more control over what I see, not what they say. -
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Thu, January 11, 2007 - 9:07 AM"I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to try and dictate what people blog, or how often they blog. "
Sure. But it never hurts to ask. It never hurts to mention that it's a pain.
"They don't even have to know about it..."
This is so strange -- if you're willing to cut them off like that, what is so hard about sending them a note, letting them know you're doing it, or at least THINKING about it? There's only really two possible scenarios that come out of that:
1. They change what they're doing, realizing that otherwise they lose friends/readers/
2. They tell you to go blow (or some nice version of that), and then you can do whatever you like (such as keep them as friends, but ignore their writing)
I still think the idea of having blog modules
brainstorm.tribe.net/thread/...7f5bcaac
would allow lots of different solutions to that problem, but I ALSO think that not simply letting them know (and letting them do what ever they do) is kinda lame.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, January 12, 2007 - 12:12 AMI'd prefer to be able to subscribe to their blogs on a case-by-case basis too- think about it, some of their (closer) friends might actually want to see/comment on/participate in their '8 blogs a day', I just don't want to HAVE to read everyone's blog.
Also, lots of us have 'friends' who we don' t really know- it's rude to go tell someone whom you don't really know that their personal blog (think crises, drama, and tragedies, people take these things seriously) is getting in the way of you viewing someone else's blog or confusing you.
We can take the 'photos from my friends' module off our homepage, we can set the friends list to not show certain friends, please think about letting us choose how those friends' blogging activities show up on our homepage also. -
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Fri, January 12, 2007 - 9:15 AM"I'd prefer to be able to subscribe to their blogs on a case-by-case basis too"
I don't see them as incompatible.
"it's rude to go tell someone whom you don't really know that their personal blog (think crises, drama, and tragedies, people take these things seriously) is getting in the way of you viewing someone else's blog or confusing you."
Point of view, I guess. People choose to be offended as they want to be. If they get a nice request and they act like cocks about it, it doesn't mean the request was rude -- it just means they're cocks. I've been on the receiving end of that, and I thought it was perfectly reasonable (and in fact, it spurred me to change how I blog). Never been on the sending end because, well, it's juts not a huge problem for me because I read like lightning and I don't bother reading old blogs (unless I'm in a comment thread there, which is why I've been pushing for "subscribe to this thread" checkboxes and blog notifications that link to the specific blog)
I think it's ruder to drop them without telling them, or to simply block them without telling them why.
"we can set the friends list to not show certain friends"
How can you do that? I know one can set up a DIFFERENT module that shows a subset of friends, but control over the basic friends display? You can edit that? -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Sun, January 14, 2007 - 9:19 PMRe: how to not show certain friends:
Go to your profile, look at your friends list, click 'edit', click 'configure this module', then select 'show just these friends' and un-select the ones you don't want shown on your friends list.
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, February 2, 2007 - 2:15 AMI made the mistake of befriending a prolific blogger and now I have the problem we talked about in this thread.
HELP!
How do you take someone off your friends list permanently - I just cant find how to do that . I don't mean the 'display these friends in my friends' list' part, I want to remove the offending blogger completely and I know I've been able to do that in the past
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, February 2, 2007 - 8:30 AMif you go to their profile, there should be a button under their photo which says "remove from friends" or somesuch -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, February 2, 2007 - 7:51 PMTHANK YOU.
Now, that brings up another Tribe issue- that's a really counterintuitive way to deal with removing friends- it would make a lot more sense to stick that feature under 'configure this module' for the Friends module. That configure feature deals with what friends are displayed on your homepage, wouldn't it also make sense for the 'remove friends' feature to be there? -
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Fri, February 2, 2007 - 9:46 PM"wouldn't it also make sense for the 'remove friends' feature to be there?"
It would probably make sense to people who pay attention, but of course, as soon as someone accidentally deleted all their friends, they would be bitching and moaning about how incredibly stupid an idea that was and how their life is ruined.
It's not the sensible people you gotta watch out for -- they're okay. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, February 2, 2007 - 9:48 PMThat's why you give them an 'are you sure' prompt, kinda like we get when we leave a tribe. I'm sure that's not a difficult thing to implement. -
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Fri, February 2, 2007 - 9:52 PMThey'll click the prompt anyway, then delete all their friends. Then, when it's pointed out to them that they did this, they'll say "Ur 'tude sux." and proceed to wail and bitch and moan. Actually, they'll start by asking how they can get all their friends back after deleting them (a lot like how calls in to Love Line sound, at first).
Currently, you delete friends exactly the same way you add them.
I'm not sayin' I DISAGREE with the mass-remove function. Frankly, people who do stupid things are a great source of amusement to me. I'm just pointing out that WHEN they do, they'll be all odious about it. -
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Re: Selecting which friends blogs you want to see
Fri, February 2, 2007 - 10:06 PMYeah, but you manage everything else about your account (except messages, which most of us never use) on the 'my' pages, not in 'their' pages.
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