Comments on: Open Source “Love Links” for Valentine’s Day http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/02/14/open-source-love-links-for-valentines-day/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-source-love-links-for-valentines-day Linux, Open Source and Social Media Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mark http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/02/14/open-source-love-links-for-valentines-day/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Mark Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:28:43 +0000 http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/02/14/open-source-love-links-for-valentines-day/#comment-175 Sorry Anthony, didn't mean to misrepresent your comments. I updated the post and pointed them to your clarification. Sorry Anthony, didn’t mean to misrepresent your comments. I updated the post and pointed them to your clarification.

]]> By: pcunix http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/02/14/open-source-love-links-for-valentines-day/comment-page-1/#comment-174 pcunix Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:56:54 +0000 http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/02/14/open-source-love-links-for-valentines-day/#comment-174 No, I didn't say "junk". I said: "I used to use StumbleUpon to find good content. I don't bother any more, because it's now full of ho-hum content. Not "bad" content, but not exceptional. Not good enough for StumbleUpon to remain of interest to me. .. That DOESN'T mean there isn't good stuff posted. It doesn't mean there is less good stuff than there used to be. It doesn't mean that somebody with a lot of Stumbled pages doesn't actually have a few gems with in them. And it doesn't mean that you or Joe P. Blow doesn't think carefully about their votes and promote content that actually is superlative. But it is obvious that a lot of people are trading favors and voting up content that never should be promoted." No, I didn’t say “junk”. I said:

“I used to use StumbleUpon to find good content. I don’t bother any more, because it’s now full of ho-hum content. Not “bad” content, but not exceptional. Not good enough for StumbleUpon to remain of interest to me.

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That DOESN’T mean there isn’t good stuff posted. It doesn’t mean there is less good stuff than there used to be. It doesn’t mean that somebody with a lot of Stumbled pages doesn’t actually have a few gems with in them.

And it doesn’t mean that you or Joe P. Blow doesn’t think carefully about their votes and promote content that actually is superlative. But it is obvious that a lot of people are trading favors and voting up content that never should be promoted.”

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