Member responsibility
One of the nice things about FriendFeed; especially at this relatively early point of development, is some of the friend groups that can develop within the FriendFeed ecosphere; and it is responses from those trusted friends that we as fellow members should really listen to if we want to make FriendFeed an even better service.
I bring this up because of a post by Louis where he asked what on one level was a very simple question about a FriendFeed feature that would allow for the blocking / hiding of one blog out of a bunch of blogs that a person might have listed on their FriendFeed profile. While the question could have been looked upon on a larger service wide basis it was one I took personally; and not in a bad way Louis, because it was one of my post on FriendFeed that sparked the question.
The blog in question is my braincell soup which admittedly isn’t a blog for everyone’s taste since it deals with more of WTF and down right strange things and obviously the subject matter could be NSFW or even distasteful for some.
As you can see from the screen capture Louis was asking for a way to be able to block a specific blog while not hurting other blogs from the same person. Now I could have easily tossed off the comment and kept on posting links to posts on the braincell soup blog but instead I took some time an thought about the reasons why such a request was asked in the first place. Sure it could be that braincell soup content doesn’t always have that much to do with tech but the fact was that one man’s blog isn’t always another persons reading enjoyment.
The end result is that I removed the braincell soup blog from my FriendFeed importing. This was done in my opinion out of any self-censorship but rather than wanting to include content that could be enjoyed by everyone - in other words it was done out of common courtesy which for me doesn’t even come close to self-censorship.
It was done out of common courtesy for my fellow members of the FriendFeed service and sometimes that is more important than trying to use WTF type of content in order to improve one’s readership.
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