lj_biz: new community icon

Abe Hassan (

burr86) wrote in

lj_biz,
@ 2006-10-02 17:13:00

new community icon
I have a really, really long post about sponsored communities that we're still working on, but we wanted to go ahead and post an announcement about one of the changes we made already. A lot of people brought up concern about being able to distinguish between sponsored communities and regular communities. We were already planning on changing the little community icon, but we didn't actually do that before we posted the announcement, and I'm very sorry about that.

To that end: when you link to a sponsored community, you'll see it listed with a green icon (that is, you'll see

sponsored_comm instead of

community). This icon will also be used in interest searches (more about those in a subsequent post) so you can scan through the list and immediately identify which communities are sponsored and which ones aren't.

More to come: separating them out on people's list of friends on the profile page (where there aren't icons next to the usernames).

More more to come: We'll be posting about other changes and answers to your questions -- stay tuned. And point your friends here, if they want details.

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	ter369 2006-10-02 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks so much for the update(s) and consideration of LJ users' concerns. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	windswept 2006-10-02 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	As if. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	spug 2006-10-02 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	Nice touch. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	windswept 2006-10-02 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	At least they got the green=money right. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	sarmoti 2006-10-02 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, it's such an obvious contrast that even a color-blind person would able to tell the difference. Oh wait.... (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	bradfitz 2006-10-02 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	We're open to alternatives, if you wanna whip one up .... ? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	imc 2006-10-02 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	Any particular reason why it's green? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	windswept 2006-10-02 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	Dollar sign. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	lucy_u2 2006-10-02 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	And what about fake users? =D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kali921 2006-10-02 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	There are currently no controls in place, as far as I can tell, to stop companies from sockpuppeting here. scienceofsleep is rife with sockpuppets, based on an examination of the user info of the community members. I opened up two support requests asking about policies in place regarding sockpuppeting and never got an answer. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	windswept 2006-10-02 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	The dollar sign would have been more appropriate. And you still suck at communicating. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lucy_u2 2006-10-02 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	LOL good idea. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Seconded! kali921 2006-10-02 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	I second your suggestion. If they go ahead with this atroturfing, that's an excellent idea - let us have a filter so that we can avoid corporate whoring entirely. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	prunesnprisms 2006-10-02 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	I'll try to say something constructive here--you do seem at least a little like you're listening, and I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. But the sponsored community icon needs to be a little more different than that. A different shape would be good, and something that's effective for color blind users should be taken into account. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	windswept 2006-10-02 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, it's not like they put any thought into this. They probably came up with it about an hour ago. Without, ya know, actual design considerations. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	Re: Since my first comment was deleted by the LJ Powers That Be! burr86 2006-10-02 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	Your previous comment was deleted because you just seem to be posting the same thing over and over, even though I already told you (in response to this comment in a previous post) that we're going to be addressing your questions. (Replies frozen)(Parent)

	delicatemaps 2006-10-02 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for this, but I don't think a green icon is particularly distinctive. Should you not change the actual icon symbol? I guess all this talk of changing the interface of these so-called 'communities' means you're definitely going ahead then... I await more news with bated breath... (which I'm not holding for very long, to be honest...) (Reply to this)

	red/green color blindness stewardess 2006-10-02 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	I'm probably the billionth person to point out that red/green color blindness is extremely common. Switch the colors to yellow and blue. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: red/green color blindness burr86 2006-10-02 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	I just want clarification here -- are you suggesting we change the existing icon, too? Or would you be okay with changing the green icon to blue (for example) and keeping the red one red? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	kitakatzz 2006-10-02 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	I appreciate the updates. And I'm really happy to hear that things are changing due to our concerns/feedback. (Reply to this)

	stewardess 2006-10-02 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	Also: You mean well, but I recommend LJ and Six Apart spend days, not minutes, thinking this over, and that they keep their mouths shut until they are done. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	jacinthsong 2006-10-02 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	Eh, but if they'd done that people would just have accused them of ignoring their concerns. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	madgenius 2006-10-02 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for keeping us updated. (Reply to this)

	lucy_u2 2006-10-02 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	Why you people are deleting comments now? It's not like this post won't get 928947877867 replies, so it doesn't matter if a user posted twice the same questions. Interesting. And I just noticed the replies there are frozen. Maybe it's because he/she posted in the first page and everybody will see? I would like to read her/his questions. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

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	kali921 2006-10-02 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	Yep, my comment was deleted without notification. I just reposted it and thus far they are leaving it alone. The questions are back up. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	serenadesha 2006-10-02 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	And as an addition - I still really wish that the sponsored "communities" would be nixed, but since it doesn't sound like that's a possibility, my expectations for the editing of the sponsored communities are very high... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sisterelwood 2006-10-02 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	While I appreciate the effort I think a more noticeable difference between the two is going to be needed. I'm not colorblind but even I have a bit of a hard time telling the difference in color. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	I like Maegwen's suggestion persnickety_pru 2006-10-03 12:39 am UTC (link)
	She made a little green target-ish icon here. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	lucy_u2 2006-10-02 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	I think they really want to get sued. laugh (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ariiadne 2006-10-02 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, so do we all. Ugh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	uniquewonders 2006-10-02 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	windswept 2006-10-03 12:19 am UTC (link)
	For...? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	burr86 2006-10-02 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, it's an absolute requirement that they make it clear in the "About" section and in the layout of the journal itself. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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