Checking off a diddit on one list automatically checks it off on another when it means a different thing

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Beware... this post is a little long and probably even hairy in certain spots. If you're at all susceptible to vomiting I suggest you turn back now.

No, but seriously just read it!

This kinda fits under the report a problem/share a solution/share an idea, so for simplicity i just called it an idea.

The biggest issue I’ve had with Diddit since the beginning was problems with marking a Diddit then having it show up marked on a different list with a totally different meaning. And also trying to find a diddit that I’ve marked off without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

An example... I explored the list “Animals You’ve Seen” a month or so ago, and had a grand time clicking all those cute little fuzzy animals off. Then, just the other day I ran into another fun list. “Aussie Cuisine” Right off the bat I noticed that I had had my fill of Kangaroo, even though I don’t remember it. And what a waste too cause it was probably dang good.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is there needs to be some sort of better categorization of diddits we check off.

I did a little digging into it and noticed there is some sort of system already in place to separate diddits without the need to create a whole new Diddit for everything you can do to a Kangaroo, but it still seems flawed. The kangaroo might not be the best example because it just so happened that it wasn’t being shared right, so when I clicked it off for seeing it, I was also showing that I was eating it too. Anyway it’s flawed in my eyes because it’s just hard to figure out.

Here’s a better example. Do a search for cow. You’ll notice that you get three results for the animal. Two of them are duplicates that need to be deleted but if you can find the one that is actually being used by the community then click it, and follow along. You’ll see under the main page of cow that it currently belongs to 4 different lists: "eaten", "seen", "touched", and "owned". All very respectable lists on their own, but what then does the number on the “main” cow page reflect. Is it a reflection of all of the lists combined, or just one of them? I dug a little bit and found that it’s in fact just a reflection of the “animals you’ve seen list” But how then do we know this unless you’re obsessive compulsive like me? No I’m really not... *sadface* I’m just here to help.

Anyway, to continue the story.... I found that if I clicked on cow from one of the lists, it didn’t return me to the “main” cow page, but rather to a separate page for cow as it pertains to that list. Cool idea I should say, but again (despite the fact that at the top of the page is says “from the list, "animals you’ve seen”, or whatever the lists might be) it’s still a little confusing. And if I wanted to venture back to the main page for the cow, how would I do that? I dunno maybe that’s not an issue for others, but to me it just seems a little messy, hard to keep track of, and ever harder to maintain.

Here’s what I suggest... No sub-cow pages. Just have the one main page that every time you click on cow, it takes you there. But then list somewhere separate from each other, each lists that cow belongs to, and how many people and check diddit, wanna do, thumbs up and thumbs down for the cow on that list. So instead of just one group of numbers on the cow page, you instead have as many groups of numbers as needed to show all the info for each list.

Problems that still might arise are: What do you do for diddits that don't belong to lists? and What do you do for diddits that you check off outside of lists? If you check of cow outside a list, i'm really not sure what that means, so that should probably be disabled somehow, but what about a diddit like Rock Climbing... that one can easily be checked off outside a list.

Anyway this would just be an easier way for people to see that, no they’ve never eaten cow, but they’ve seen one, and heck yes they’d love to ride one someday. That and i think if there was just one page per diddit it would be so much easier to maintain.

And, If you made it through my ramblings you get a brownie. Meet me out back tonight and they’ll be nice and warm.