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Add a user wall post feature?

This is probably a ways out, but in the office we have talked about adding a comment section to your profile. This would let other users comment on your profile so you could have back and forth threads without flooding answers, meta, or guide notes.

Currently we are thinking the wall would be entirely public, but I guess that would also be up for discussion.

Thoughts? Would you use this? Or would it just promote flame wars between users?

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Don't want it--won't use it. A PM feature would be nice however. Ralph

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Yeah probably PM over wall post.

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Hmm, alright. Well I'll consider a PM system, I'd prefer to just have the whole thing be public, but I'll putt around with it.

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Yeah I've been thinking that would be good, sometimes you want to talk to a user, but there's no messaging or PM feature. As for flame wars, I'm sure people will take the high road and ignore anyone trying to start one. I don't know about it being public, but PMing would be nice.

I mean when you think of having threads and such, you risk the idea of "private" (even though it'd be public) groupings of people to organize whatever, excluding others, which is what's good about Meta and all.

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Flaming could easily be dealt with if the user had the ability to delete anything from his or her wall, which I think would be a very sensible option to have.

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Worried about getting flamed rab?

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Why should I be? Are you intending to do so? Because that wouldn't be very nice.

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The community does seem isolated in that if you don't know a user outside of iFixit, it's not easy to communicate with them. I like the idea of a wall system (as long as the users have control over their own walls).

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+ I could see the use of this - not certain I would, but the option could be useful. N.

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I have wished for this more than once in the last week.

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I like the idea of a wall, too. I had an idea last night, regarding this. When commenting on someone's wall, you could check a box to make that post private. Only the commenter and commentee could see that post, but it would appear in line with the rest of the posts, so as to preserve the timeline. These posts would have to be very obviously private, maybe with different colors or a big Private header or something. Users could have the option of only allowing private messages on their profiles.

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What do you think about skipping the idea of 'only allow private' to being able to mark any one Q/chain/comment on the wall private by giving both sides the ability to mark private?

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Let me modify that a bit. How about letting, or even forcing all wall posts to be private! Then if I post to your wall a message I have marked private, it stays private no matter what. When I send you a message I mark public, like "Kudos! Where did you learn that?", you get it marked private on your side, and public on my side. If you choose to mark it public, then it becomes visible on your wall. If you do not want such ever posted on your wall (like Ralph), then nobody ever sees it.

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I would add that either the poster or the receiver could mark any wall post private.

AND that neither "private" vote could be over-ridden.

So if you mark it public, and I mark it private, it stays private. And visa versa. If you and I both mark it private, and you change your mind and mark it public, it stays private because of my mark.

So we have to have agreement of both parties to make a wall post public.

I am 100% for that, as a flame war reduction (not prevention) idea.

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I would also like to see wall posts be a lot like answers.

Voting (up/down) is not required, and might be bad. Voting up/down could be done with or without points. Points could be Q&A points, Meta points, or a new type, wall, or 'internal reputation' points.

My reasoning for this is that we have a single item which gets marked private or public, which contains the entire context, and is more difficult to remove the context and make one comment out the middle of a dozen public.

This idea is less important then the pub/pri mark, but I think it moves the idea along to a more advanced (2.0?) design.

Oh boy, then somebody gets to add this to the FAQ...

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