Comments on: JapanSoc Widget http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/ Deas Richardson is currently living as a JET and teaching English in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, a gorgeous part of Japan. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:24:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JapanSoc Revamped! New Features! « LongCountdown.com http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-44260 JapanSoc Revamped! New Features! « LongCountdown.com Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:08:19 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-44260 [...] Deas made a very cool JapanSoc OS X widget and some great social bookmarking icons, too. Thanks, [...] [...] Deas made a very cool JapanSoc OS X widget and some great social bookmarking icons, too. Thanks, [...]

]]> By: Daily J » Topic » Thank yous and lots of Japan-related web activity! http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3290 Daily J » Topic » Thank yous and lots of Japan-related web activity! Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:11:25 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3290 [...] for the Mac lovers out there (one day I hope to be cool enough for a Mac ). He made one for JapanSoc and another for Nipponster.com. Thanks for the widget, [...] [...] for the Mac lovers out there (one day I hope to be cool enough for a Mac ). He made one for JapanSoc and another for Nipponster.com. Thanks for the widget, [...]

]]> By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3236 Deas Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:18:02 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3236 Noted and changed in the article. Thanks. Noted and changed in the article. Thanks.

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3233 Nick Ramsay Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:50:25 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3233 I need to correct myself: Upcoming posts don't auto-delete. They just can't be published after 14 days, i.e. even if they get enough socs, they won't be shown on the front page. I suppose that's fair enough as long as they aren't spam. More content for Google = more visitors to JapanSoc = more visitors to everyone's blogs. <em>Nick Ramsay's last blog post: </em><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/longcountdown/~3/233055844/' rel="nofollow">Earn Money with Japan-Hopper.com</a> I need to correct myself: Upcoming posts don’t auto-delete. They just can’t be published after 14 days, i.e. even if they get enough socs, they won’t be shown on the front page. I suppose that’s fair enough as long as they aren’t spam. More content for Google = more visitors to JapanSoc = more visitors to everyone’s blogs.

Nick Ramsay’s last blog post: Earn Money with Japan-Hopper.com

]]> By: JapanSoc Toolbox « LongCountdown.com http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3188 JapanSoc Toolbox « LongCountdown.com Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:51:23 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3188 [...] I don’t have a Mac, I have to settle for the video of the widget in action on Deas’ JapanSoc OS X Widget post. Incidentally, he has also made a Nipponster widget for the above mentioned, Japan-specific [...] [...] I don’t have a Mac, I have to settle for the video of the widget in action on Deas’ JapanSoc OS X Widget post. Incidentally, he has also made a Nipponster widget for the above mentioned, Japan-specific [...]

]]> By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3166 Deas Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:13:56 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3166 Well, if you were aiming to sound like a <a href="http://www.icanhascheezburger.com" rel="nofollow">lolcat</a>, you'd be on the ball, I'd say. Ha ha. But I probably wouldn't soc many stories like that. Well, if you were aiming to sound like a lolcat, you’d be on the ball, I’d say. Ha ha. But I probably wouldn’t soc many stories like that.

]]> By: lost in ube http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 lost in ube Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:04:02 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3163 Deas, Neat site. What if I title every post "OMG! Don't bury me PLZ! KTHXBI!"? Not that I've been posting or anything like that. I just realized the other day that all of my posts in January were made on January 1st. <em>lost in ube's last blog post: </em><a href='http://lostinube.blogspot.com/2008/02/six-things-february-3-2008.html' rel="nofollow">Six Things February 3, 2008</a> Deas,
Neat site.
What if I title every post “OMG! Don’t bury me PLZ! KTHXBI!”?
Not that I’ve been posting or anything like that. I just realized the other day that all of my posts in January were made on January 1st.

lost in ube’s last blog post: Six Things February 3, 2008

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3162 Nick Ramsay Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:34:42 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3162 Yeah, I've been watching your burying antics on the "Live" page ;) I think we're getting close to upping the soc requirement to 3, but not just yet. <em>Nick Ramsay's last blog post: </em><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/longcountdown/~3/229409593/' rel="nofollow">Mami’s Pink Car - The Lapin</a> Yeah, I’ve been watching your burying antics on the “Live” page ;) I think we’re getting close to upping the soc requirement to 3, but not just yet.

Nick Ramsay’s last blog post: Mami’s Pink Car – The Lapin

]]> By: Deas http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3161 Deas Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:05:50 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3161 Hey Nick - ok, I can respect that. I'll stop burying things. If you look at my karma and my other stats on the users page, you might mathematically deduce that I've buried....a lot. I can't help it - if I wanted to see EVERY post on Member X's blog, I'd have subscribed to their blog... They don't all glow. You know? But I'll refrain from burying. :: sigh :: Also - still no Gravatar... Hey Nick – ok, I can respect that. I’ll stop burying things. If you look at my karma and my other stats on the users page, you might mathematically deduce that I’ve buried….a lot. I can’t help it – if I wanted to see EVERY post on Member X’s blog, I’d have subscribed to their blog… They don’t all glow. You know? But I’ll refrain from burying. :: sigh ::

Also – still no Gravatar…

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/comment-page-1/#comment-3158 Nick Ramsay Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:52:31 +0000 http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2008/02/05/342/#comment-3158 Hey Deas, I've been thinking about this "bury" business, and would rather not encourage people to bury everything they don't like. If JapanSoc were a huge site such as Digg, then fair enough, go ahead and hit the bury button. However, on JapanSoc, I don't think we should be discouraging people from submitting something, which is what burying articles does. The whole point of the "Upcoming" page is to keep below-par articles off the front page. Currently, 2 socs are enough to get to the front page, but if too much below-par stuff gets through, then I can raise the requirement to three or more votes (which I plan to do as we get more users). As it is, the bury button is really a "report spam" button. If there are three times more buries than socs on a submission it gets automatically deleted. This is handy for users to identify and remove spam when I'm not around. The other little known fact is that any submissions that don't make the front page get automatically deleted after 14 days, and I can reduce that number, too. So, in summary: 1) If it's spam, hit the bury button, 2) If it's crap - do nothing (auto delete after 14 days), 3) If it's good - soc it! Hmm... I really should update the FAQ with this stuff. <em>Nick Ramsay's last blog post: </em><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/longcountdown/~3/229409593/' rel="nofollow">Mami’s Pink Car - The Lapin</a> Hey Deas, I’ve been thinking about this “bury” business, and would rather not encourage people to bury everything they don’t like. If JapanSoc were a huge site such as Digg, then fair enough, go ahead and hit the bury button. However, on JapanSoc, I don’t think we should be discouraging people from submitting something, which is what burying articles does.

The whole point of the “Upcoming” page is to keep below-par articles off the front page. Currently, 2 socs are enough to get to the front page, but if too much below-par stuff gets through, then I can raise the requirement to three or more votes (which I plan to do as we get more users). As it is, the bury button is really a “report spam” button. If there are three times more buries than socs on a submission it gets automatically deleted. This is handy for users to identify and remove spam when I’m not around. The other little known fact is that any submissions that don’t make the front page get automatically deleted after 14 days, and I can reduce that number, too.

So, in summary: 1) If it’s spam, hit the bury button, 2) If it’s crap – do nothing (auto delete after 14 days), 3) If it’s good – soc it!

Hmm… I really should update the FAQ with this stuff.

Nick Ramsay’s last blog post: Mami’s Pink Car – The Lapin

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