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Intuitive Watchlists +2
Not much of a fan of prose so here is the current thought-stream:
- Feedback is vital for user participation within any community
- New version of watchlists provides highly quality feedback
- How should we increase the quantity of feedback to the use
In a conversation the other day with Camilla and Honore, we started wondering what things should be watchlisted by default. The first one we came up with was: you own profile. (You should be alerted when someone posts a comment, etc.)
Of course, we should have an option in the user's settings to turn off adding thing's by default their watchlist.
What else might be a good idea to watchlist by default?
Comments (1 - 9 of 9)
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Hi Honore Thanks for pointing this out. By doing this the simple view actually offers more than the detailed view! We might want to default to the the simple view, and put a link to what changed from the detailed view. Yes, we do want the links added to emailed watchlists. Thanks for taking the time to point this out. Jon |
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Hey Jon - the changes should be linked. When looking at your watchlist activity report, see if you are clicking on the "simple" view versus your detailed view. The simple view is the one with full sentence descriptions, whereas the detailed view is just a rather unfriendly looking table. :) I know that your emailed watchlist alerts should also be linked. Let me know if you are running into something different.
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@Rehan: Users' own profile is a must as this facilitate connection between users. Another one that comes to mind is defaulting a group to the group administrator's watchlist (with privilege comes responsibility). Not a directly related issue is the need to periodically remind WiserEarth admins and editors to regularly check pages that help them do their job of monitoring content and moderating comments. e.g. Recent Activity, View Comments Across the Site. This can be done via WE's internal messaging system. "Periodically" here should logically mean "daily". More so as the userbase and site activity grows. |
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Link to what has changed...
Here is a feature that would make watchlist alets more useful. If you look at your "watchlist alerts" it tells you when a change was made, the name of the type of change, and the user name of the person who made the change, but it doesn't let you link to the change. The "what changed"column does not offer a link to see the change. I suggest that we make the text in that column link to see what has changed. Make sense? |
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@ Rehan: I think many things are already added to the network of a user when s/he creates it. As for adding things by default into someones watchlist, I could imagine it being prechecked when a user creates something but I can't see it being deafult anywhere else except perhaps on the users profile. When/if we implement 'compliments' I could see those triggering a watchlist report.
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For very active users this could be a problem, so the ability to disable automatic watchlists is vital.
But from a conceptual standpoint, if you contribute something to the community, shouldn't you by "poked" when someone else updates that contribution?
I guess the question should be "Is monitoring the community feedback of content you created embedded within a user's Willingness to Participate?" |
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Wasn't one of the concerns whether this would overload the user's watchlist alerts? I know that for creation, we can add in a checkbox that adds it to the user's watchlist, much like what we implemented for discussion forums.
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Another thought: If you create something (article, group, etc.), it get's added to your network and to your watchlist.
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Hey Jon,
I think that's something we were puzzling over. :) We don't set cookies for the watchlist report view, so it's odd that some people still see the detailed view vs the simplified view. I agree that with our latest watchlist revision, the simplified view is the better of the two to present as the default. I'll see if we can make sure that's default across the board.
Thanks,
Honore