Thumbs up or down?
…on whether or not to keep the thumb ratings on the posts.
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- Luiz Celso: super surf was my first skateboard...i did buy in miami beach 1971..i was 11 years old....my first trip to us........
- Pan's Dog: Still have my Strople Pro Model. Back in late '77 early '78, 11 year old me asked the dudes at Sidewalk Surfer, Scottsdale, AZ, what deck they would recommend. Caster Chris Strople Pro Model was the a...
- Rb: Lol! I just met Brooks today, in Hawaii! I noticed a stack of funny looking skateboards in his carport that started a long chat!!...
- Jeffrey Donovan: Vinylkingzcrew@gmail.com, my very first board was yellow bk graffiti, mini board. Can you guys please reissue this particular board?...
- jonathan skeeter: Also came out in a 1986 issue of Freestylin' BMX magazine w/ a story about Mark Skateboarding gots NO love for BMX...
- HOWARD MARTIN-TAYLOR: Lucky man, I had a Skuda LA when I was a kid, again, my prized possession, but was stolen when I was 15 years old, I was devastated. I am also 58 years old and would love to find another one....
- Leslie Warren: I’ve just found this, I’m a 58 year old surveyor and I’ve got one of these, I bought it new in 78/79 by working three paper-rounds when my parents banned from skateboarding on safety grounds, st...
- Ryan M Wheeler: Love that Steve Caballero did a ripoff label of this logo for his band Urethane… 🤘...
- Kilwag: https://skateandannoy.com/contact/...
- Chris: How do I get hold of you …. I found another even better one !!...
- Mike Smith: I rode with Roy in 77. He nicknamed me Silicone. I was the kid with the long blonde hair. Just wondering if you have any films that I'm in....
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- Steven Leto. Jr.: That's awesome.I skated for sunshine house from 74 to 79.We were there almost everyday.We got to skate it before it opened and when skateboarder magazine came there we got our pics in it.I always skat...
- Rick Briggs: My first wide deck was a crappy AISI Viper! Thanks for posting this, I've been trying to find it online for years. I asked my parents to get me a fat board from the states when they went to Hawaii I t...
- Wes: Precious find...
- Tim Tempest: I had a Pacer..the little yellow cambered fibreglass model..ACS 651 trucks & Gecko 5 wheels.. My brother,he had the mahogany deck...same trucks & wheels but two totally different boards..The ...
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- Kilwag: Let's see some pics! Use the contact email if you wan tot send them....
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- Michael: Having just moved to Eagle Rock CA. From Puerto Rico in the summer of 1968 the following summer (1969) for my birthday I received my first skateboard, The Black Night, complete with the infomous clay ...
- Wes: Cool...
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- Dave: Hi, did you source one of these? Thanks...
- Terrence (terminator) Bunce: I skated the little & big bowl back in the late 70's & I caught the fever.... My 1st skateboard was a Sears yellow plastic board with a grainy finish, urethane open bearings wheels..... no wa...
- Scott Garig "Sunset Surfer": I first went to Val Surf in July 1974, when it was next door to the liquor store on Whitsett & Riverside. I sold them my 9'4" Morey Pope board with a John Beck design, because I was going into the...
- Michael Hall: I have a vintage Continental skateboard with the fiberglass prism board and all original parts that I am interested in selling as I no longer ride it. Anybody interested please contact me at the email...
- Bucky: Huh? The one on the left is the original quicksilver from 87 no?? The right is screen printing, the left was before that....I'm just trying to sell my left one...or is that what you are saying? I can'...
- Kilwag: Read and Destroy! I have some of those mags I was planning to add to the gallery but I don't have a scanner big enough to fit those oversize pages....
Seems about as useful as a facebook like button.
Except it’s about things we actually care about.
if it is indeed stuff we care about, why does need to be said that we “care” about it(through use of thumbs).
I think comments are more fun to read(‘cept on youtube), and more interactive as well – Ex. this comment
Wash your hands!
Comments suffice…
Amen.
Remember the time we couldn’t comment at all?
Man,was I down!
But the thumbs are lame,sorry.
I want to read peoples opinions,not their approval.
it gives you too much info before you even know what the topic is about. rather go in blind
A great way for people who are banned to provide feedback in a socially acceptable form!
Are we giving a certain topic a thumbs up because we agree with the content in a post, or do we do it because we think it is LAME or funny. It’s confusing.
Don’t even get me started about that stupid poke icon on facebook.
The numbers on 11-29-10;
Indy grab: 25
Mute grab: 3 (regular footed)
Instead of thumbs up/down icons, how about skate/annoy icons? Skate being the affirmative and annoy being the negative. My two cents.
I thought about that actually, I could make it mongo and regular, but that would confuse for sure…
“horny” or “floppy” ?
You’re already using Skate ‘n Annoy icons;on the maximizing and minimizing of pictures.Those are about perfect.
the skate/annoy thing would be genius, not because it should be compared to an Affirmative/Negative or would provide us with any useful information, but because it would just be clever and funny
If we are using it as a tool to shape content then I am okay with the thumbs. But if it’s a popularity contest, I don’t need it.
I do agree with the latter half of your statement, my good man! What an exciting debate this is turning out be!
I’d always give it a thumbs up on the quality of the post (wiping off nose now) but the for the quality of the actual content it could give us all an idea of how your community feels. Making more relevant to your site with Rich’s idea would be cool.
I thought it would be an easy way to say this is cool/uncool without having to leave a comment that says “This is good”, because how interesting is that? I figure it’s small enough to be benign. If you don’t care, you don’t have to click either one.
You’re not necessarily voting on the quality of the post, but more of the idea or facts it presents.
If there was a word or image for tapping out your applause…
I want to be able to say “I give this post three solemn taps of my tail on the coping without making eye contact”
Thumbs up always
NO !
I keep complaining about the lack of comments on my blog, a thumb (up or down) means …nothing.
If you want gimmicks, why not a “LOL” or a “haha”, even a “so, so” or “cheers” or “fuckin’bloody mess” button ?
Absolutely no interest, I guess it might even prevent a few readers from actually sharing a comment !
I love that skate and annoy button idea the best !
So whats the verdict?
Well it’s pretty clear that most people have responded favorably. I spent some time trying to change the icons to “Skate” and “Annoy” which I agree make more sense for this site, but the problem is the plugin I’m using has all that hosted remotely, and the logic that serves up those images is hosted remotely in an IFRAME served up by Likebot…. There’s no way to change it, barring some sneaky jquery for changing the images after the page has been loaded. I’m hesitant to do that for performance reasons. Unfortunately there are no other like/dislik plugins for wordpress except for one that had a hidden link to a poker site at one time, so I don’t trust it.
Eventually I will figure out a way to use my own images, I may have to write the plugin myself.