The "Interesting" Feature

Jenni_D

I've noticed that below each post there is now an option to tag it as "Interesting". What is this, and what does it do?

(Apologies if I've missed an announcement about this ... I only first noticed this new feature yesterday).

Brie

Thanks for pointing it out!  I'll await some informed comment.....

FrugaiMacDugal

Here it is.

DE_612183

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6633920/new-feature-mark-post-interesting#latest

eskbanker

Jenni_D said:

I've noticed that below each post there is now an option to tag it as "Interesting". What is this, and what does it do?

(Apologies if I've missed an announcement about this ... I only first noticed this new feature yesterday).

I've just tagged that as 'interesting' so you should be able to see what happens!  It seems to be an alternative to thanking a post, but is potentially a solution looking for a problem....

MSE_Stephen

Hi @Jenni_D

There is a post on the Community Noticeboard:
New Feature: Mark post 'Interesting'

It doesn't do anything different from 'Thanks'. It's just giving you another option to mark a post if you think 'Thanks' doesn't seem quite right.

The more we can get our members to 'React' to posts, the better we are able to find and highlight great content. For example, the Trending Sort isn't as useful as it could be because it favours new threads and doesn't get enough signals about threads. 

MSE_Stephen

eskbanker said:

I've just tagged that as 'interesting' so you should be able to see what happens!  It seems to be an alternative to thanking a post, but is potentially a solution looking for a problem....

We'll have to see!

One example of where it may help: When someone posts a new thread, the reader might think it's a good question or raises an interesting point, but 'Thanks' doesn't seem quite right. So the thread is left without a reaction despite being a quite interesting thread.

MSE_Stephen

eskbanker said:

I've just tagged that as 'interesting' so you should be able to see what happens!  It seems to be an alternative to thanking a post, but is potentially a solution looking for a problem....

...and as another example of its use. I did decide to mark your post 'interesting', but thanking you might have felt like I was agreeing that we were doing something not useful!  

eskbanker

MSE_Stephen said:

eskbanker said:

I've just tagged that as 'interesting' so you should be able to see what happens!  It seems to be an alternative to thanking a post, but is potentially a solution looking for a problem....

...and as another example of its use. I did decide to mark your post 'interesting', but thanking you might have felt like I was agreeing that we were doing something not useful!  

Likewise, I tagged yours about the desire for increased member interaction as interesting (but without necessarily agreeing that it's useful!)....

Out of curiosity, is this a feature included automatically within a new release of the underlying Vanilla software, or one previously available but not enabled, or something actively requested as an enhancement?

MSE_Stephen

eskbanker said:

Out of curiosity, is this a feature included automatically within a new release of the underlying Vanilla software, or one previously available but not enabled, or something actively requested as an enhancement?

Default. Though we have changed its name. 

We could clutter the footer of posts with all sorts of reactions: 'Awesome', 'LOL', 'Like', 'Agree', 'Insightful' - and several negative reactions. 

Our goal is to keep things simple and positive. 

Jenni_D

Thanks for the responses ... very interesting. 😉😁