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23 Responses to “18,967’s a crowd”

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   Michael Kozakewich said on 2 December 2009 at 10:50 am:

   Should we try to match that here?

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 2 December 2009 at 10:58 am:

   Let’s see if we can crank past 10.

3. 
   Rémi Prévost said on 2 December 2009 at 11:01 am:

   No doubt Mark Zuckerberg will personally read all those comments :)

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   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 2 December 2009 at 11:05 am:

   I admire their achievement. I can’t imagine designing for a community that large, writing notes to a community that large, or moderating and responding to feedback from a community that size.

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   Amanda said on 2 December 2009 at 3:54 pm:

   To get us to ‘5′ I think Facebook is doing an amazing job. Even though they are constantly changing and developing new features their user interface hasn’t gone down the drain (like MySpace).

   Their integration of apps is also absolutely fantastic. 1000’s of apps and millions of people trying to add the next cool thing and it’s still a pleasant user experience.

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   David Sleight said on 2 December 2009 at 4:50 pm:

   While orders of magnitude less, we started having similar moments at the previous day job that made me wince and seriously reconsider our approach.

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   Michael Kozakewich said on 2 December 2009 at 6:15 pm:

   I’m surprised there haven’t been more comments. To this post, I mean; not the Facebook one.

   I think the one thing that made Facebook great is that we’re expected to use our whole real name. That’s the only reason I joined, three years ago.

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   Alan Stewart said on 2 December 2009 at 10:58 pm:

   It’s worth keeping Mr. Zuckerman’s post and a record of those responses to show an innocent client when he or she says “we’re thinking about adding social networking to our site.” But I’d be afraid the client would then insist on a dislike button.

9. 
   coursework said on 3 December 2009 at 2:29 am:

   yes you are correct usually face book , has the largest community, and also u have to use the your original name so that people can belive u,

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    web designing templates said on 3 December 2009 at 2:30 am:

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    Douglas Heriot said on 3 December 2009 at 5:40 am:

    We made it past ten!

    …too bad the Facebook post has gained a few more as well. As of writing, it’s now on 28,493 comments!

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    John Keese said on 4 December 2009 at 5:16 pm:

    crazy how with more and more “involvment” — comments — a user might be more tempted to not put in his two cents. i mean, what could i possibly comment on that hasn’t already been said?

    with a testing group of 35,756 (as of 4:16 pm), who needs 1 more. nielsen says you only need 5 to get it mostly right…

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16. 
    Daniel said on 5 December 2009 at 6:30 am:

    That is hugely impressive, but bear in mind that it seems a ton of the comments are just spam.

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    Jeffrey Zeldman said on 5 December 2009 at 11:37 am:

    That is hugely impressive, but bear in mind that it seems a ton of the comments are just spam.

    A ton of comments here are spam as well, but Akismet catches them before anyone sees them.

    Catching spam on Facebook has to be trickier (that is, less susceptible to spam bot filter detection and deletion) because the kinds of discourse on Facebook vary so wildly.

    On zeldman.com, a two-word reply followed by a dozen exclamation points would almost certainly be spam. On Facebook, it might well be a legitimate comment.

18. 
    Evan Skuthorpe said on 5 December 2009 at 2:03 pm:

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19. 
    ABS said on 5 December 2009 at 4:48 pm:

    Jeffrey, clean up on isle two.

    For my site, most of the “spam” are stupid kids that copy and paste “post this 100 more times or something bad will happen…” just like on YouTube. There are questions posted in the comments which I can answer, but they post as a guest and I have to trust they will come back to that page. I’m getting hundreds, maybe 1000 comments each day, so no, big communities cannot respond to all feedback. However if it’s just one big topic like Facebook did, I’m sure Zuckerberg went through the first dozen pages and then some. Maybe the last dozen as well. Probably skimmed a little in-between.

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    Jeffrey Zeldman said on 6 December 2009 at 1:24 am:

    Currently: “47,439 people like this. View all 38,436 comments.”

22. 
    George Katsanos said on 8 December 2009 at 9:13 am:

    I just scrolled the first page of comments (50) and they are ALL SPAM.
    No admiration for what they’re doing either. The notorious “applications”, after their peak, nowadays go down to tetris-clone games office assistants play during their lunch break.
    Most importantly, Zuckerberg’s post discloses the reason for Facebook’s most problems. Need for more privacy control and more filtering. More and more users realizing they don’t actually know who can watch the things they share, in the end dropping their profile after getting fed up from building numerous “Limited Lists”, under the fear a friend of a friend who knows their boss sees their last status “I’m sick of work”.
    What turned Facebook popular in the first place, (the real name and last name use) will be the same reason it goes down. Anonymity is sweet.

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