An interesting idea came to me after reading the thread, regarding the ‘AFWE card’. I wonder if we might want to voluntarily add badges to our user profiles, which will tell the readers of our posts (particularly tasting notes) our stylistic preferences.
I know it’s an oversimplification, but it might be fun, and somewhat helpful to those who don’t read EVERY post each person posts here (unlike Ken V). If we do a badge for AFWE, what’s the opposite? How do we label it? What classifications should we have? 2? 3? 4?
Great idea. CT should do the same thing. I am not very good at describing wines, I either like it or I dont so would be helpful to others if they know what appeals to me.
Maybe 4 levels, 1 being AFWE to the extreme and 4 being Grandmas syrup. I would fall in the #2 category presently.
Sounds like a great idea…tho I’d make it a style preference descriptor/icon, not a multi-level thing that replicates the 100/20/5/whatever point system. Allowing people to attach multiple style icons to their profile seems important/worthwhile.
I think we’d be better off if we could a semi-standard set of style icons to attach to points in tasting notes. Seems like a great addition to CT to me (it’s not like Eric doesn’t have a long list of things to add
Count me as crotchety as well but really it comes more down to signal to noise ratio. The more websites get away from what they do well and fall victim to feature creep, the busier pages get, the less time I spend reading them. CT Classic still works like a champ and is a miracle of signal to noise ratio in this day and age.
Josh - I’m thinking of something small, where Donor badges are, or perhaps below the contact badges (like IM, etc, below your avatar). That way, it’s not ‘in the way’, but can be used by anyone who wonders what stylistic preference the poster has, to glean MORE information about the note or comment
Right. Then we could open up the social graph and really focus on a Transmedia strategy. I am not really sure what that means of course. But I did hear someone say it at SXSW this year. Badges. Good for 4square. Bad for WB.