Comments on: Fight For Your Right To Desphinn http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/ SEO and Marketing Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:43:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Danny Sullivan http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/comment-page-1/#comment-17643 Danny Sullivan Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:33:14 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog-test/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/#comment-17643 <p>I don't think you're picking on me, Lisa. You write about a lot of things. Don't feel so sensitive.</p> <p>I don't disagree some might hesitate to use Desphinn. But when you write that as a result of that, "what he's really done (with the best intentions) is to create an environment where people are afraid to speak up," that's just not correct. Sorry. </p> <p>People speak up and disagree with others all the time on Sphinn. You know this -- you've seen this. This is done in the comments. And I'll leave it at that. </p> I don’t think you’re picking on me, Lisa. You write about a lot of things. Don’t feel so sensitive.

I don’t disagree some might hesitate to use Desphinn. But when you write that as a result of that, “what he’s really done (with the best intentions) is to create an environment where people are afraid to speak up,” that’s just not correct. Sorry.

People speak up and disagree with others all the time on Sphinn. You know this — you’ve seen this. This is done in the comments. And I’ll leave it at that.

]]> By: Lisa Barone http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/comment-page-1/#comment-17642 Lisa Barone Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:10:56 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog-test/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/#comment-17642 <i>Oh God, Lisa's picking on Danny again and making him defend himself. Someone needs to lock that girl in a corner. ;)</i> No, you're absolutely right. If you made it anonymous people would complain. I completely understand why you've made the feature the way it is. However, I do think that makes people less-inclined to use it. There are definitely times when myself or others do not desphinn something we very much don't agree with me simply because we know the person and know they'd react unkindly. That's all I'm saying. It goes both ways. Oh God, Lisa’s picking on Danny again and making him defend himself. Someone needs to lock that girl in a corner. ;)
No, you’re absolutely right. If you made it anonymous people would complain. I completely understand why you’ve made the feature the way it is. However, I do think that makes people less-inclined to use it. There are definitely times when myself or others do not desphinn something we very much don’t agree with me simply because we know the person and know they’d react unkindly. That’s all I’m saying. It goes both ways.

]]> By: Danny Sullivan http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/comment-page-1/#comment-17641 Danny Sullivan Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:59:53 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog-test/2008/06/fight-for-your-right-to-desphinn/#comment-17641 <p>People do use desphinn, just sparingly -- which I think is pretty appropriate. Don't forget that you've got two levels of not showing support. </p> <p>The first is to not sphinn an article at all, right? So if you don't sphinn, that's a way to not show support and bypass the entire "I don't want to be rude" thing and stay anonymous. Unless you know the person so well that they're like dude, why didn't you sphinn my story?</p> <p>The second is to desphinn. You know, where you really disagree something doesn't deserve to go hot and feel like it's headed that way. It's a slowing function. I've used it. Others have. And it works. </p> <p>I think it has its place for the ample amount of reasons we've explained. If we drop it, people go to the spam button. If we make it anonymous, then I'll get complaints about a desphinn brigade.</p> <p>We don't have an environment where people are afraid to disagree on sphinn. You read the comments; you see people disagreeing with each other usually in a professional and respectful manner. </p> People do use desphinn, just sparingly — which I think is pretty appropriate. Don’t forget that you’ve got two levels of not showing support.

The first is to not sphinn an article at all, right? So if you don’t sphinn, that’s a way to not show support and bypass the entire “I don’t want to be rude” thing and stay anonymous. Unless you know the person so well that they’re like dude, why didn’t you sphinn my story?

The second is to desphinn. You know, where you really disagree something doesn’t deserve to go hot and feel like it’s headed that way. It’s a slowing function. I’ve used it. Others have. And it works.

I think it has its place for the ample amount of reasons we’ve explained. If we drop it, people go to the spam button. If we make it anonymous, then I’ll get complaints about a desphinn brigade.

We don’t have an environment where people are afraid to disagree on sphinn. You read the comments; you see people disagreeing with each other usually in a professional and respectful manner.

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