Hi Get Satisfaction team,
after Amy some moments ago replied to one of my topics recommending a topic to me I already had subscribed to, I noticed how the users activity isn't equally, at least not equally visible, in Get Satisfaction topics.
Another point is the speed of noticing a certain fact and generating a positive effect out of it.
Because, Amy of course could've just looked on my dashboard site and notice that I follow this topic already, but as everyone understands, this is impractical or at least too much work.
So I figured out two new improvement ideas:
1. Concerning the "Users participating" you'll at first notice, that I change the language to a more active and precise expression. Secondly, you should be able to see the title, job etc. also with users. Thirdly, I'd propose a "drop-down" menu like with at the "You" in the title bar. I didn't put this in the screenshot, but I know this is a "must be", not to open it, but to close it. Standard behaviour should be "open", if the following users don't "blow up" the vertical layout. At the moment there are too many users following the menu could maybe "auto-closed" and what happens when you open it, is something I leave up to your creativity. ;)
2. The "Who likes it?" could maybe be reworded in a better way ("Who (/else) likes this topic/idea/discussion (too)?"), but basically it just serves
almost the same function, to open up a page or something like that with the users, that
liked the idea, but
aren't (still) subsequently
following the topic!
I hope other users would be easier to acknowledge, to contact and to network with this way.
Kind regards.