Reflections Of A Dedicated Plurk Fan
I’ve been thinking about Plurk, and what could be done to improve the site.
One complaint that I have heard quite often is the steep drops in karma that can occur when you away for a while, even for something as simple as sleeping!
This had never really bothered me until recently, because I work from home so much.
This past weekend though I had to travel out of town, and was gone for nearly 24 hours.
The drop was quite significant, although in the context of the rest of my life, it hardly matters.
It could be something for the A – Team to consider though!
If enough people get disillusioned with the drop in karma when they are spending time with family, or working, or, heaven forbid, sleeping, they might just move on to the next big thing!
There’s enough competition out there now, and it’s increasing all the time.
I plurked earlier today asking friends what one thing they would like to see change about Plurk!
There have been some interesting answers.
1. being able to search for friends inside of threads
2. Start with the oldest plurk first, on both updates and responses.
3. Message threading and being able to ‘bookmark’ conversations.
4. Staff responding to “Contact Us” messages.
5. Being able to add a search and any posts that match would come in to my timeline.
Interesting responses from people who enjoy Plurk, and want to continue using it.
What one thing do you think would improve Plurk?
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Or you could just hide the karma from your profile :
http://www.rasyid.net/tag/hide-karma-plurk/
I have, and now feel no more guilt for not plurking every moment of the day and night.
PS: http://www.plurk.com/user/eztephen
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To be honest… since thread segmentation was one of my fav parts (over Twitter) losing the private Plurks has caused me to have even less interest. It’s become little more than a scrolling Twitter lately… sigh…
Ultimately I feel the Karma back fired as many peeps I know have been frustrated with it. If you think a day off is painful, try taking 3-5 days off…. it is mildly insulting really.
If you ask me we’ve gone backwards lately… losing features not gaining… grumble mumble….
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