New site feature: social review comments

dr wu23 wrote: ^ That might be the problem since I have McAfee security on my drive .....but I don't know how to disable any ad blockers or firewalls ...I'm basically ignorant about the inner workings of my computer.

^You definitely need to have a facebook account to leave a comment but I don't think that should disable you from seeing that box where people would leave the comment (right under the review and under the bold 'social review comments (0)' ).

The time when I'm not seeing it though is when I have Disconnect turned on which is a browser plugin that disables all sorts of user tracking that google and facebook do, and that's when I don't see that box at all. Maybe if you have something similar like that or an heavier adblock or something else that might be doing a similar thing and disabling the facebook box (in my case I'm talking about firefox).

Same thing happened with me: I clicked the social review comments which lead me to a new page, where underneath the review was a small box to comment in.
I'm not sure whether you're doing anything wrong doc - maybe one needs to have a Facebook account in order for this to fly? Like I said, I'm not sure how this works, but I'll swing it by the admin zone.

dr wu23 wrote: Ok...I'll try again...how does it work exactly ....I tried clicking on it under a review and nothing happened. ?

Edited by Guldbamsen - April 04 2015 at 11:40

Ok...I'll try again...how does it work exactly ....I tried clicking on it under a review and nothing happened. ?

Finnforest wrote: Not a fan of this at all.  My opinion is that people should spend their time writing their own reviews about the music rather than being able to attach "comments" that get billing right below the hard work of others.  It's like they get the last word on a review someone else took the time to submit, and I think that sucks if they get to inject criticism on someone's work.  If you don't like a review, write your own review.  Reviewers should have the ability "turn off" this feature on their reviews, if they wish.  To decide whether or not to allow "comments".  JMO.

Agree 100%.

For what little my opinion is worth, I don't like this feature.  I don't use Facebook and never will.  I don't care that what a certain subsection of the Internet thinks of my reviews.

PM bad comments or write positive comments in the appropriate thread.  We already had that, right?

"Innovations" like this just make me less and less interested in the site, I'm sorry to say.

Tom Ozric wrote: I thought the 'I really like your review' thread is sufficient enough for those that invest their heart and soul into their writings. Then again, who am I to say, I'm just a paranoid android.......

I just tried it to see how it works, opting not to post on FB (which I assume is what M@x may be intending to increase discussion on reviews etc). It's not bad but can't see any huge benefit apart from a tap at the back

I don't really know how such things work (i.e. integrating Facebook comment feature, or how the internet business scene works), but when I first heard of the idea, I thought of it from a business perspective, which is where I presume M@X is coming from -- sure, the forum commentary keeps things nice and easy and contained in our own world, but opening it up to a concept like "Facebook" has the ring of expanding the site's penetration into the world at large.  From that perspective, my first thought was that it would probably be good for the site, even if it gave another door for trolls (the cost of doing business, say).  At least see how it flies for a while.

But most of the opinions posted so far seem heavily skewed in the other direction - essentially saying, no, we don't need that, we have all the feedback mechanisms we need, and what's more, we anticipate that the trolling will increase to a high degree, and our best and brightest reviewers will be dis-incentivized to even write reviews.  I hadn't really thought that part through, and while I don't truly think it would cause a major stir, in that light it doesn't sound like a lot of fun.  Plus, you gotta make the forum regulars happy, right? :)  We's the bread and butter of this joint.

So the "on/off" option seems ideal.  Interested to see if that comes through.


Edited by HolyMoly - March 11 2015 at 15:37