I have just decided that someone needs to invent the email “like” button. When someone sends you an email saying, for example, “that was a great blog post Tref” it is a real waste of everyone’s time and effort to reply saying “thanks very much”.
Really what we need is a means of communicating back a thumbs up or a like without the original sender having to open the email just to read the word “thanks”.
Simple.
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That could work on a server based solution such as Exchange or Domino but maybe not for POP3 or IMAP.
Imagine you are mobile and are waiting on a crucial business e-mail such as someone agreeing to the terms of a deal, you do a send and receive and notice (because you’ve got eyes a Hawk would be proud of) that receiving 1 of 1 appeared momentarily.
How disappointed would you be to discover it was simply a like notification for a joke you sent your mate three days ago?
Look I’m not looking for problems, I’m looking for solutions:) Who is going to step up to the plate? :))
As an aside, why doesn’t your blog have the facility for ‘commenters’ to be emailed when the comment thread is updated? 🙂
Pass I’m not a developer so I’ll step away at this point (really need to get rid of this curved keyboard)
Nice idea though.
That’s a fair point Michael. Looking at it I can’t see how to switch it on from the WordPress dashboard. I’ll have a dig around the forum.
While you’re digging – perhaps there’s an option to add ‘likes/thanks/thumbs-up’ or similar to comments here on tref.net?
[17 PEOPLE LIKED THIS]
Or trefor.net even!
A ‘preview’ option would also be good 😉
hmm – will have a look. The only thing is that all these features add widgets and therefore slow down a blog. That said I am moving it to it’s own Cisco UCS blade in January (yes the one I was holding the other day
http://www.trefor.net/2011/11/28/cisco-ucs-b200-blade-server-with-96gigs-of-ram/
This will give it some serious oomph so I might do it to coincide with that – something to do over Christmas!
Web developers already have trouble grasping RFC 5321 so we don’t want anything more complex do we? 😉
The problem is that some people use ‘like’ buttons constantly and other people completely ignore them. Do we genuinely believe that some people ‘like’ everything they’re presented with and others have totally disregarded your output? Nope. Because of this, we begin to subconsciously ignore this ‘like’ feature.
If someone takes the time to pen a ‘thanks’ e-mail, then they probably mean it. If someone clicks ‘like’ they’re one of those people that clicks ‘like’ on everything.
Yes, I’m one of those people that hides the ‘important’ column on my e-mail because of the people out there that mark everything they send with it. I’m also probably completely wrong and the ‘like’ system will eventually underpin society!