Originally shared by Malkazoid
Ok - this is a big one folks - CONTENT DRAFTING is now live on the Narrative Alpha. We can now queue up our content, and it will go live when Beta launches in March. The interface is simple, clean, and effective. I've just queued up my first piece, called Curing Xenophobia - destined to be a series anyone can contribute to.
https://blog.narrative.network/get-ready-to-hit-publish-content-drafting-is-live-f9609f1de59d
https://blog.narrative.network/get-ready-to-hit-publish-content-drafting-is-live-f9609f1de59d
Ok - this is a big one folks - CONTENT DRAFTING is now live on the Narrative Alpha. We can now queue up our content, and it will go live when Beta launches in March. The interface is simple, clean, and effective. I've just queued up my first piece, called Curing Xenophobia - destined to be a series anyone can contribute to.
https://blog.narrative.network/get-ready-to-hit-publish-content-drafting-is-live-f9609f1de59d
https://blog.narrative.network/get-ready-to-hit-publish-content-drafting-is-live-f9609f1de59d
Does your social network service allow a user to hide community memberships, and posts in communities in which the user is a member, from the user's main circle?
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Russell Great question - I'm going to ask it on the community forum. The Narrative Beta launches in March, and the alpha functionality currently has not expanded into areas where your questions could find answers. So the only way to find out is to engage the team, and see what their intentions are! I'll be back if I find something out!
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Russell Hi Benjamin. Here's a response from David (Narrative Staff):
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In Narrative all posts are public. There is no concept of private posts. Everything you post is out there to be seen.
Now, as to which Niches you're following, that's different, and is part of your Member Profile. Right now there is no way for anyone to view what Niches another individual is following, what other Members they may be following. As we move along though, visibility of some of those things will become options that you as a Member will to able to decide. You'll be able to allow others to view what you follow, you'll be able to allow others to see who follows you and who you follow.
You can refer to the spec and see what elements of your profile are public, what is private, and what is your choice under Member Profile. The profile elements and then the settings are discussed in that link.
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One of the best things about Narrative is that the community is actively listened to. So if there is a compelling argument for allowing people to make some of their posting private - come be a voice for that on the community forums. I will certainly participate in the discussion, and there are plenty of good minds in the community braintrust who will probably also take an interest.
Malkazoid > In Narrative
ReplyDelete> all posts are public. There is no concept of
> private posts. Everything you post is out there to be
> seen.
Unfortunately, this could post a problem in certain situations.
Generally speaking, there exist certain types of users who are incompatible with other types of users, and in certain circumstances, I wish to accumulate followers of both types without alienating either type. This is not possible without private posts.
Specifically, a few years ago, a certain Haskellite researcher on Google+ identified one of his interests as "games." At the time, since I happened to share this interest, I recommended a certain online Japanese title (which was also available in English) for solo-play. The reason that I recommended an online title for solo-play, rather than an offline title, is that Japanese offline titles, unlike Western offline titles, are typically not available for use on a personal computer, and need to be run on some sort of console (say, a PS4, Nintendo Switch, or 3DS), and I simply did not have enough space in my apartment to use the console needed to run this title. Since I worked (and still work) as a Japanese->English translator, and Japanese is not my native language, I preferred to play in Japanese in order to practice my understanding of Japanese (while allowing others to play in English if necessary).
Unfortunately, when I recommended this title to him, he replied, "I do not like to play with people I don't know." Therefore, I then attempted to recommend some alternative title that was more accommodating to solo-play.
However, he never responded thereafter. Apparently, he had decided to put me on his /ignore list.
After this incident, I did some research on how to hide community posts on Google+, and discovered that functionality had been added to hide membership in communities, and any posts in such communities, from one's main circle. (Subsequently, additional functionality was added to hide specific communities, as opposed to communities in general, from one's main circle as well.)
Prior to using this functionality, every time that I posted a series of online title-related posts after posting a series of posts on some topic on either Haskell or pure mathematics (most Haskellites are actually pure-mathematicians-in-disguise (especially since Haskell is based on category theory, which is a topic in pure mathematics)), I would lose followers. However, after using this functionality, I usually would not lose any followers in such a situation.
In a nutshell: Scholars (especially Haskellites and category theorists) do not mix with geek-otaku. Most Haskellites and category theorists treat any posts on any otaku subculture-related interest as signal noise, and either /ban or /ignore the poster of such material in the manner that most television viewers change channels when encountering a commercial.
Forcing all posts to be public in a combined scholar/geek-otaku circle has the same effect as forcing commercials upon television viewers.
Most Haskellites and category theorists will not tolerate what they treat as signal noise in any circle that they follow. They usually wish to maximize their signal/noise ratio. They typically do this by unfollowing any circle that generates what they consider to be signal noise. Topics related to otaku-subculture are typically treated as signal noise by most Haskellites and category theorists.
This is the reason that private posts are needed.
Benjamin Russell Thanks for taking the time to lay out this explanation. For now, the only way to solve your problem in Narrative would be to have two accounts. A solution, but not ideal in some ways.
ReplyDeleteOne route the developers could take would be to allow you to categorise your content under streams, allowing followers to choose which of your streams they want to subscribe to.