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Vdub144 replied on October 26, 2009 01:52 to the idea ""share with my network" button" in Plurk:

Wow. Its been a year already. :(

Vdub144 replied on October 26, 2009 01:51 to the question "Replurking?" in Plurk:

This was a pebble in the shoe to using Plurk. Got tired of seeing 10 people all Plurk the same thing on my timeline. And it isn't so easy to delete or ignore w/out hurting friends Karma. Plurk missed the ball on this one.

Wave seems to do this right, allowing new folks into the thread, while protecting old parts. It's obviously FAR more complicated than Plurk which is supposed to be more social by design.

Plurk SHOULD have a replurk ability, that lets you put someone else's Plurk into your timeline and maintain some type of link back or spawn control.

Vdub144 reported a problem in Plurk on March 04, 2009 17:21:

Plurk RSS items not clickable

Plurk RSS items are not clickable back to original Plurks.

Friend is using RSS to update his Twitter & Plurk boxes on his blog instead of widgets. The Twitter updates are clickable, the Plurk updates are not.

Here is Steve's blog: http://teachersaid.wordpress.com/

See bottom right corner. Clicking on the Plurk should take the reader back to the original Plurk (like the Twitter feed does.)

Vdub144 started following the problem "links in rss aren't clickable" in Plurk.

Vdub144 reported a problem in Plurk on March 04, 2009 16:03:

Shorten the baggage when Plurk crossposts to Twitter, FB, etc.

re: crossposting to twitter, etc.

Can we turn off the plurk trackback URL and #plurk hashtag, and make the trackback URL shorter?

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The #plurk hashtag is overwhelming when searching for terms like "plurk" on Twitter. I'd like to turn it off. It also takes up 7 valuable characters. Another idea would be to allow a user to replace it in his/her profile, or not include it at all. You can do this right on the page where you set up integration: "include the following hashtags on my Tweets: [#plurk ]"

I understand the trackback URL to the original plurk, and generally like it. But I do note that when every tweet has it, I'm being ignored on Twitter, and therefore folks aren't following through to Plurk. Again on the crosspost setup page, how about "include link back to original Plurk in content [√]" so it could be turned on/off, and then use a unicode hash to shorten that 5 character reference back to 2 or 3? (Maybe a Unicode redirect like arro.ws instead of the long URL)

I like crossposting to Twitter because Twitter does currently have a working keyword search, and many applications that can scrape those streams for those words. But my words get truncated in my Tweet due to the hashtag & url issues.

A comment on the idea "Make Plurks "rise and fall"" in Plurk:

I don't really want to mute them, or turn them off in my timeline, just prioritize the plurks from folks who I seem to be using plurk professionally with ("what tool will do XYZZY?") and those who seem to have more informational or entertainment value plurks (XKCD, ICanHas, SlashDot, etc.)

Plurkbuddy for example has its tweets show up in bright yellow. Its an informational type tweet. I'd like to differentiate in my "follow" list for "low priority" plurkers that would just appear on the bottom line, or their plurks in a different color. (Geospatial is probably better than color though.) – Vdub144, on March 04, 2009 15:48

Vdub144 replied on March 04, 2009 15:41 to the question "Quick disable of cross-posting to Twitter and Friendster?" in Plurk:

I've found that if you mark a plurk private and send "only to my friends" it has the same effect as not crossposting to any other network. Generally this is acceptable since if I don't care if its public on Plurk, I don't care where it is public - but if I want to have some modicum of privacy, I'm going to send to only friends anyhow.

Not a workaround, but a practical solution...

Vdub144 replied on March 04, 2009 15:24 to the idea "Add music sharing sites to compliment photo and YouTube sharing" in Plurk:

I don't want a share music feature. I especially don't want ANYTHING that automatically plays when I visit a profile.

What I do want is something that allows you to embed short audio clips in a flash player the same as the embed YouTube feature works. Currently, I just off-site to another site like Soundlantern.

Vdub144 replied on February 18, 2009 19:44 to the idea "Make Plurks "rise and fall"" in Plurk:

hey Amix, just wanted to revive this in a slightly different way. There is a new class of Plurkers - commercial interests in some cases? You recommended following failblog for example - lots of followers, few friends, mostly one way transmission of ideas, rarely responding. Slashdot is another one of these, even Ryan's Karma_Trends.

Can we allow the owners of these accounts, or ENCOURAGE the owners of these accounts, to perhaps identify themselves as FYI services? (Or maybe a user can tag something a low priority plurk in the PP/L/Options menu) These FYI services could then earn a permanent spot near the bottom of the timeline, appearing in the chronology, but out of the way of the true threaded discussions. I don't want to keep opening XKCD after I've read it, as 200 others continue to respond, for example.

What I'm concerned about is the signal to noise ratio Twitter suffers from. I've tried to use TweetDeck to sort things out, but literally you have to then create separate places to "look."

Plurk hasn't suffered from having too many "news" services on here yet, but maybe we can do something like this proactively to help as they seem to have started coming?

Just a thought...

Vdub144 replied on February 15, 2009 15:13 to the question "Replurking?" in Plurk:

Seem to be LOTS of replurk questions on Get Satisfaction & especially on Plurk itself. Plurk needs a much better replurk method.

The button method that @uchari mentions here would be the best. When a user clicks it, rather than a cryptic URL, a plurk would appear in my timeline stating "Vdub144 replurks: WGraziadei SAYS ____" it then appears in my timeline for my friends who DON'T follow Bill, but doesn't show up new for our mutual friends. It could say on Bill's original Plurk page at the bottom that "this has been replurked by @Vdub144, @uchari and 20 other Plurkers..." if you wish.

More bots are coming on line now. Like Twitter there are CNN bots, quote bots, and Slashdot bots. With hundreds of friends, I can see the same thing requoted from a bot by like 10 people- each one an original plurk over & over. It makes it hard to follow a discussion, often spread across various plurks. Makes it hard to bookmark. And sometimes points are made in one Plurk, but not one that the best responder who has already answered that question is in.

Again, this keeps coming up as a topic. Two months before Bill posted this, I wrote this:
http://getsatisfaction.com/plurk/topi...

We LOVE plurk - but its the exponential growth that tends to burn us all out. I'm not talking about or advocating 10,000 friends, but with a network just in the hundreds I get an awful lot of repeated Plurks that would be most easily handled with a "replurk" button.

Vdub144 replied on February 15, 2009 14:52 to the question "Karma went down even after having reached nirvana." in Plurk:

Even in the upper 90s, my Karma will go down if I do not maintain. And it falls by as much as -.16, while updates at that level are down to +.01. While it might not seem "fair" it does mean that it is very difficult to reach and maintain 100. Likewise, Karma is "easier," and reaching 50 or so seems to have a pretty good balance of up and down arrows.

You may have misunderstood the system. No offense, but where did you hear that Karma would not drop?

Vdub144 replied on February 12, 2009 15:00 to the question "Is Plurk Auto-marking more threads as read than usual?" in Plurk:

I think so - when I manually go back to messages that I have been waiting for responses to I find new responses there, but my counter at 0 and the plurks not showing in my timeline. It may have to do with leaving while you still have unread messages showing - like when you accidentally click on a user's name & it takes you to their profile. When you back arrow to your own, the messages will be missing. (Sometimes.)

Vdub144 asked a question in Plurk on February 08, 2009 05:10:

flickr video being rendered as a still

Flickr Videos showing up as stills. Plurk assumes all flickr content to be pictures, and only way to link (without giving a misleading picture) is to use a URL shortener. Although this was in the "ideas" some 5 months ago, it really belongs more in the "problems" section because the media is being misrendered.

Vdub144 replied on February 04, 2009 04:16 to the question "Avatars want to find one another too!" in Plurk:

Quite funny you chose to respond by creating SL as a country!

It does open the floodgates... Especially since you don't have to report your real location now. Could plurk support multiple locations in the future, or perhaps a series of "interest" fields instead - since what this really matters about is finding one another based on common interests in the "Interesting Plurkers" engine, right?

I'm not ready to "move" to SL, but the move toward finding people "interesting" for more reasons than their physical location has piqued my interest!

Vdub144 replied on February 04, 2009 04:09 to the question "Hyperlinking Plurks" in Plurk:

bottom right corner of a plurk is a button that says "URL: Plurk Page" right click, grab the URL, and paste that into your plurk. If you can't right click, just click through, and you should see the URL in the address bar.

I think what you really are getting at is "replurking" so that one of your friend's Plurks can show up for the rest of your friends. That's an older request, and not sure if it might be in the pipeline or not any more.

Vdub144 shared an idea in Plurk on February 04, 2009 04:06:

Making Plurk a bit more Wii friendly

Friend recently mentioned her computer was down, and was trying to plurk from her Wii. plurk.com/m works better for this, but the font on a TV is just too hard to read. If you use the Wii's Internet Channel ZOOM button, text flows off the right side of the page and you have to scroll right/left.

Can the mobile version have a font bigger/smaller button, or can you make a plurk.com/wii version that is just like /m but either has a narrower body, or larger font? Rest of the encoding is fine, its just hard to read on a television.

Other thought would be just to remind plurkers that they can use the /m (or /wii or even /mx2) as well as plug a USB keyboard into their Wii and use Plurk. This could go in a Plurk hits or FAQ or something. Normally I don't try to plurk from my Wii, but I did just log in to try it. The timeline view was pretty difficult to navigate, mobile was much better, but had small font problems.

THANKS!

Vdub144 reported a problem in Plurk on January 08, 2009 19:45:

Anonymous users need to provide at least minimal identification.

I'm not happy when I get a new fan, and go to look at their profile, only to find "you don't have permission to view [this person's] profile." If they are following me, and gain access to my profile as soon as they choose to fan me, then I should have at least basic access back to theirs to find out where they are located, or what their real name is. When I visit their profile, I don't even get a block button!

(I do know I can block them by choosing the pull down in the original Alert box.)

Plurk wouldn't work as well if everyone set their timelines to private. And while I understand some people think they have more to hide than others, private users should then by default be blocked until they are given permission to view, not letting it be a passive action.

"Because your timeline is set to private, this user must approve you as a fan. Please provide a personal note to the person you wish to follow."

Vdub144 replied on January 08, 2009 19:34 to the idea "Be more transparent about what you're doing to the service." in Plurk:

As long as a long-time user can be, I've been. I've watched Plurk grow, and compared to Twitter issues, Plurk has ALMOST always maintained some functionality with few A-team/Critter pictures even while having problems. Some problems are feature related, some growth related - and since this is a live production service public less than a year, it can often be called Alpha more than Beta, much less "Production."

But Plurk is gaining critical mass. Happy users have evangelized, our networks have grown. Perhaps you are now at the point where only some users are on a beta server, while most users reside on the last stable release that lacks the new features. To the extent that the database can be segregated, it would let those of us who are willing to put up with more service interruptions be part of this great product taking place, while letting those with less patience benefit from a stable release.

And without opening that black box too much - maybe updates could be announced by Plurkbuddy, and take place in a regular maintenance window. Freeze Karma on Sundays, and make changes every other Sunday during a scheduled maintenance window?

Vdub144 started following the idea "Be more transparent about what you're doing to the service." in Plurk.

Vdub144 marked one of Amir Salihefendic's replies in Plurk as useful. Amir Salihefendic replied to the question "Last Visit - set time to appear".