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View Poll Results: If edit and delete user functionality is restored, what will you do? | |
Delete my EBD post and cut back or stop other posts
|     | 10 | 25.00% | |
Delete my EBD post and continue as before
|    | 8 | 20.00% | |
Delete all my posts
|    | 1 | 2.50% | |
I will not take down my EBD post
|    | 3 | 7.50% | |
I did not participate or do not plan on participating
|    | 18 | 45.00% |
10-27-2001, 10:56 PM
|  | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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Multiple threads have asked the question What next especially regarding the EBD writeoff and the hope that edit and delete user functions will be restored.
What I'm looking for here is to try to consolidate the EA member opinions regarding the situation. If restored, will you take down your EBD post, remove your others, change nothing? |
10-28-2001, 12:06 AM
|  | Gravitas! | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: New Orleans, La. U.S.A.
Posts: 666
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I don't plan on participating, but I do have sympathy for the ones that have. I see it as a protest, a means towards an end. I would hope that once the end is achieved, the EBD posts would come down. |
10-28-2001, 09:37 AM
| | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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The poll so far is running half and half. (And half again, but I'll explain.)
22 responses with 11 each participating and not participating.
Of those who did, all said they would take their post down upon restoration of the edit and delete functions. Half of the participating group said they would not contribute in the future or contribute less.
I refuse to calculate confidence levels early on a Sunday morning, but if I worked at Epinions, those would be encouraging numbers to me. Simply restoring the edit/delete function returns a significant number of people to pre-change production. That's pretty nifty given the sweeping changes and the manner in which they were presented. |
10-28-2001, 09:47 AM
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My EBD post stays for as long as it the account and that stupid posted-too-early product exists. |
10-28-2001, 10:17 AM
|  | Calorie Queen | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hell
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My EBD post stays for as long as it the account and that stupid posted-too-early product exists.
| BOOYAH! 
(I would not normally condone leaving one of these up but I was almost as irritated by the addition of this product and the abuse of the category thus far as I am not having an edit/delete function.) |
10-28-2001, 11:15 AM
|  | Epinions Members | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Malden, MA, USA
Posts: 8,461
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Personally I can think of very few if any things at Epinions that have bothered me more than the addition of the two Treo categories followed quickly by a "review" from an Epinions content engineer who hadn't even bothered to look at what little information we do know about the Treo.
Oh yes, at the same time I could name quite a few released PDAs that I could go out and buy today that I couldn't review because they haven't been added to the database (not to mention the piddling percentage of accessories in the database nor the pathetic state of the Palm software listings).
If anything were to drive me to insurrection this would be it.
Janice
BTW in true Epinions style they only added two of the three Treos - the 180 and 270, not the 180g. I rather suspect they didn't even know the 180g existed since the content engineer didn't seem to bother learning anything about the device before posting his review |
10-28-2001, 11:30 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2000
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I can live without the pennies or without the Content Partner sites (although, I do think that those who have put a lot of effort and care into their content partner sites should be permitted to continue -- raise the bar to limit the casual user so that it becomes what it was intending to become).
But without edit/delete functionality, I won't contribute any more. |
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