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I like the idea about changing "Friends" to "Favorite Scratchers".  I found the whole friends thing to be very confusing when I first started Scratching.  Using the term "Favorite Scratchers" makes the concept much clearer.

torterra wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

I like the idea about changing "Friends" to "Favorite Scratchers".  I found the whole friends thing to be very confusing when I first started Scratching.  Using the term "Favorite Scratchers" makes the concept much clearer.

BUT!!!! some of us have scratchers on there friends list because they are there friends that they met on scratch or in person. You have to remember that.

So maybe they are your favorite scratchers as well.

kevin_karplus wrote:

The problem with "Friends" as the name for the list is that friendship is usually a reciprocal relationship---that is, if A is friends with B, then B is friends with A.  The list on the My Stuff page does not have this symmetry.  I can put people on my list of Favorite Scratchers, without them putting me on theirs.

Great explanation!

Right now, favorites and love-it are somewhat underused, so there does not seem to be a big need for an even rarer label.

kevin_karplus wrote:

The problem with "Friends" as the name for the list is that friendship is usually a reciprocal relationship---that is, if A is friends with B, then B is friends with A.  The list on the My Stuff page does not have this symmetry.  I can put people on my list of Favorite Scratchers, without them putting me on theirs.

thats a really good explination. I guess if your friend is so called "favorite scratcher" he/she would still be your friend anyway.

Last edited by torterra (2008-01-02 11:51:16)

Soraya wrote:

MyRedNeptune wrote:

... I don't want "Friends" to be "Favorite Scratchers". "Friends" is more... umm.... friendly.

I completely agree with him... it's ambiguous!

Yes, and I'm a girl... 

I think Friends should be changed to favourite scratchers because most people on your list aren't actually your friends. you add them because you like their projects.

I'd like to see the "my stuff" page simplified, with just a short list of pointers to other pages:
   My projects
   My galleries
   messages about new comments

   Favorite scratchers
   Favorite projects
   Favorite galleries

   Fans (people who listed me as a favorite scratcher)
   Galleries my projects are in

I hate going to someone's page to check their projects and having to wait 10 minutes for all the "friends" icons to load!  The "My Stuff" page should have only one picture on it: the icon for the user.

One thing that would have to be fixed is the control over who who can submit to a gallery.  That would have to be allow a different list of users for each gallery, rather than "my friends".

I think that it would be cool to call friends "brotha's and sistas from nutha motha's who create cool scratch projects and whose work I admire and maybe make good comments on my projects that are nice and make my day (and maybe year) nice and good and happy."

Was that tooooooo looooooong?????
lol!!!                                                      

pasta3049 wrote:

I think Friends should be changed to favourite scratchers because most people on your list aren't actually your friends. you add them because you like their projects.

users on my friends list are my friends, and not my favorite scratchers.

I [also] agree with what Hobbs said, except for background.

There could be this thing where (in your profile) below your avatar there is a signature that can be edited and seen by the Scratch community.

E.g.
(avatar)
below avatar signature
|_______________| [edit]