Plurk Adds Live Links in Profiles
Giving credit where it’s due. Plurk really does listen to the user base from my experience. Hear some gripes going through plurkistan and before long you’ll see a photo of th A-team.
You can now add live links with custom anchor to your plurk profile.
http://www.bloggeries.com (Bloggeries Blog Directory) simply insert ( ) around your anchor in your profile and you are good to go.
What do I think of this? First I think it’s awesome because I spend a lot of time on plurk and now when people come to see my profile which ~900 have so far they can also go directly to my site if they wish.
I do think it will get insanely abused though and they would be smart to make that one of the rewards for reaching say 25 karma. People complain about spam all the time but one of the best things to do is prevent it. If you need karma of 25 or above your average spammer will never reach that based on the new algorithm. Furthermore if you were a spammer would you waste your time building up a profile at a social network when you could go elsewhere with less hassle?
Curious what other people think? http://www.plurk.com/p/gffb
Written by: Bloggeries
Live links on profiles are a good move from Plurk and, as you wrote, a testimony to their designers reactivity. I agree with you, though, that limiting this functionality to a certain minimum Karma would be a good idea.
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count me as one that agrees. if you want to have the whole karma thing and award features as people’s karma grows, profile links should be a something folks can be rewarded with. the emoticons make the whole karma thing kinda silly.
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I think this is a great idea and shows they listen. And even though I am definitely using social media partly for marketing, I also like to just have fun and hang out. So I think making live profile links a karma reward is the right thing to do, especially if karma cannot be gamed through automated means.
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It’s a good move from Plurk, because it’s already on other microblogging platformsm, so they thinking at us when made this feature, but also must to make an another move to have an option to add other accounts from other networks to can keep in touch with our friends also there
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