You know how if you link to another hubski post, it looks like this?
Would it improve the experience if the original poster was notified when their post was reposted? Like - should ButterflyEffect get a notification because I just posted a link to his/her post?
I think it would be cool if I got a notification of something I posted being re-linked in a new thread.
But maybe not - maybe it would be over-notification.
EDIT: it's funny that just yesterday I said that I rarely make recommendations for the backend system - and really just try to enjoy the people. I guess I made a lier out of me. Sorry mk, /, and others...
I vote yes. I know tng votes yes to. I think initially there was an issue with that notification from the backend. I don't know where we stand on that currently. I've been calling them embedded posts or cards.
"Your post has been carded by so-and-so!" sounds like Mafia Wars spam though :), I suppose 'shared' or even 're-shared' would work. One issue I can see being: what if the person updates the post? To avoid things being spammed I think you'd have to record the relationship in the database and have a boolean store if the other user has been notified -- this should persist across edits, so even if it gets removed and re-added it does not trigger another notification.
And if you have email notifications on? :P But yes, ideally that is how it would be presented. Like I said, the main issue is you'd have to track these cards to make sure you're not spamming users and that the feature doesn't get abused. For example, what happens if someone makes a post with 100 others embedded? Is that possible? What if it's all the posts of one user, would it notify and email them 100 times?
I would hope the shout-out system has some form of protection in place, again to me this would be some relationships table somewhere saying this post mentions this user and a boolean saying if a notification has been sent. Let's try Cedar War Cedar War. Well wasn't that interesting! It sent me two notifications, but updating the post even to the point of removing and re-adding the mentions in a different order did not trigger new notifications.
I think it is on the spreadsheet. It's on the list (again)... It's just one of those super low priority things that kept being put off. I think mk is actually on it now.
Oh it will be. The problem here is that you can force Hubski into sending too many emails, this may exhaust any mail allocation that the server has but more likely will get Hubski blacklisted as spam -- blocking new users from signing up as they can't verify their accounts etc and incurring financial expenses to mk as he'll have a rough time getting un-blacklisted.
I thought of this today when I shared one of your old posts about hamburger menus. It's a topic I know you have thoughts and insights about. I put it in a current discussion and after the fact, thought "huh - I maybe should have tagged insom so she could add to the new discussion". but I wondered if posting your post would notify you... and here we are. I bet that users who already get a TON of notifications like mk, tng, and kb wouldn't want to have another thing in their notification window... but I like knowing when/if I'm getting quoted and maybe I could join in a new discussion. thoughts...