Comments on: More on del.icio.uses

By: Del.icio.us souring? at fnerd.com

Del.icio.us souring? at fnerd.com — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:21:51 +0000

[...] I’m wondering if Arrington might want to do an Alexa dance on some of the other social bookmarking sites to verify if the trend is isolated to del.icio.us or if it’s web-wide. As CBD posted several months ago, del.icio.us clones are becoming quite ubiquitous. [...]

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:27:34 +0000

Amazon now has the slidey star ratings too…

By: cbd

cbd — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:49:04 +0000

Todd, thanks for your post, and for the site itself. I’ll continue to share my thoughts as I keep using ma.gnolia. As you folks grow, I’ll be interested to see what portion of users use all the site’s features.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:07:14 +0000

Thanks for this info. Keep it coming. I’m finding it very helpful.

I requested to be a user for Ma.gnolia, but no answer yet.

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:37:16 +0000

Thanks for the good review – I love reading stuff that has interesting ideas about alternative ways to think about a feature, so this is very welcome.

I think the advantage of separating the rating is that it provides one type of tag that is harmonized across all users. Where you use *** for a three-star tag, I might use 3-star, three-star, !!!, axxx – well maybe not that last one.

The point is that when we add star-rating to search criteria, you’ll have a way of consistently searching by member-assigned quality markers, and that’s a place where just tags for marking quality breaks down somewhat. I hope that illuminates some of the thinking behind the ratings. Thanks again for checking us out.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:01:10 +0000

I do think Ma.gnolia at present hopes for a wise crowd rather than relying on the del.icio.us wisdom of crowds. I’m torn on the star rating system; activated by sliding across the number of stars, it looks slick (it’s certainly better than the StumbleUpon “I Like It!” button), but the stars are too close and I can’t tab through it.