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  • nign started following the idea "Clarification of New Account Creation and Approval Process" in Gawker Media Tech.

  • question

    nign asked a question in Gawker Media Tech on September 10, 2009 14:59:

    nign
    The "Help" page seems to be missing on Gawker
    Is the "Help" link on Gawker.com supposed to redirect to the advertising contacts page? Because that's where it gets me every time I click on "Help."
  • problem

    nign replied on December 12, 2007 05:18 to the problem "Feed ownership verification?" in Soup:

    nign
    Hey thanks for the response. :-)

    It seems it's a trade-off between higher trust quotient and faster initial setup...

    But, from a new user's perspective, having the opportunity to play around with non-feed-import-related functions was quite enough for me to test out and decide whether I wanted to use Soup. I'm raising the verification question because I want my Soup profile/ portal to be indisputably "me" once I start using it. As a user, I don't feel that having a more "tedious" setup process discourages me from signing up. It'd actually make me feel "safer" and hence induce me to use Soup, ike you'd feel a shopping site is more trustworthy because it demands the verification code on the signature stripe for credit card purchase.

    And the fact that "some" sites don't allow inserting user-generated content and therefore are unavailable for ownership verification doesn't mean that other sites that are available for verification shouldn't be verified; it's illogical. It'd be enough to discourage impersonation as long as the verifiable ones are verified.

    Anyway, I hope Soup will soon grow big enough for it to be impractical to deal with impersonation/ feed-stealing with human labor. ;-)

    Again, thanks for the response. I really appreciate it. :-)
    Do you think this solves the problem? Mark it as solved
  • problem

    nign reported a problem in Soup on December 12, 2007 03:53:

    nign
    Feed ownership verification?
    My perception is that Soup.io is supposed to work as a personal portal, a la iddy.jp, because when I'm importing a feed, the function is captioned "me elsewhere."

    I understand that public feeds are easy to "steal," but does Soup have to make it any easier? The personal portal interface design is good and does give the impression that whatever is on it belongs to the person behind the ID -- the problem is, it may not be.

    I actually tried importing a feed a friend has incorporated into his Soup profile, and Soup was totally happy with two different accounts having the same feed -- which were imported under the "me elsewhere" function, which is ironic, like there are two of the same person.

    If Soup intends to act as a trustworthy personal portal instead of a feed aggregator like Bloglines, then a feed ownership verification process needs to be in place, like when someone wants to import a feed, the person has to first post something through that feed for a Soup verification bot to check, and the feed is imported only after the verification is done.

    And btw, a friend tried importing his own Soup feed into his Soup, and it totally worked. It's not harmful but nonetheless makes Soup look kinda silly; not sure if you want to fix that.

    Just hope that you can devise something to discourage impersonation.