LULZ in Tales of Transhumanism

"Kudo" is disappearing, just to be replaced with something similar (if not exactly the same)

Can't help but notice that those diarists who are sucking up to Simple Mind over this are the same people who were sucking up to him over the Kudos idea. It's hilarious that they told him that they loved the Kudos idea, but now that people actually think it sucks they're jumping on his next hare-brained idea like crack-whores on a dealer's dick.

No offense, of course.

Why bother with this at all? It makes no sense to me. Just leave it, we're better off without a "like" or a "kudo" or a "recommend" or whatever. We all make the front page, so what's the point? I get it, you want to "spotlight" good writers. So have circles. I'm fully aware you want to be different to OpenDiary, but there's an adage you might wanna employ: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

And then there's this line: "I believe that quality content deserves to be noticed." Okay, but are you new to the internet or something? What I mean is, historically, "quality" is subjective - this is still indicative of a popularity contest. Sure, you say that we all want to be noticed or we wouldn't be here - that's fine, we all want people to read our stuff, but we can't all be "spotlighted" at the same time; in essence, what you are doing here is enabling it so that those who are sufficiently popular enough gets "spotlighted", and those who fail this undefined standard are pushed into obscurity.

As for me, I don't give a fuck about "popularity", not like Simple Mind seems to. I care if people read my shit, sure, but being "spotlighted" isn't part of my plan. I just don't want to be buried under a whole avalanche of shitposts just because everyone who uses this site would rather read about someone's kid taking his first dump or whatever. The flaws inherent with this idea are even more glaring than the flaws that were all over the "kudo" thing.

Anyway, I'm extremely interested to see how this works, even though I get the impression that this "recommend" button won't work half as well as they think it will - especially since it seems to be more exploitable than "kudo" could ever have hoped to be....

.... unless that's the point, of course.

EDIT Let me be clear, here. I'm not criticizing Simple Mind. He's doing a great job. I'm just voicing my thoughts... and my thoughts are that I'm not so keen on the way the site is heading. Just my two pence, ya dig?