| 3 | | > ''"I don't think that people see WordPress as a tool for managing comments that they post on other sites"'' |
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| 5 | | Yes, I think you are correct, users don't currently think of WordPress for managing comments on other sites because, minimally, '''WordPress does not currently offer that feature'''. |
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| 7 | | [http://www.statisticbrain.com/myers-briggs-statistics/ Most people] are [http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/sensing-or-intuition.htm sensing], and only envision what ''"is"'', not what ''"is possible."'' |
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| 9 | | But what if WordPress '''did''' offer the ability to track comments on other sites? My guess is that a good majority of users would want that. |
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| 11 | | > ''"but I suspect that unless and until web annotations really become popular, many average users would perceive this as wasting time to make WordPress a tool for something that 80% of users aren't going to use."'' |
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| 13 | | You have just identified the chicken-and-egg problem. If WordPress does not offer the feature then people will never see WordPress as the tool for doing this. |
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| 15 | | As for ''"wasting time"'', just how much work do you think we are talking here? I purposely proposed something that would take very little time to implement. |
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| 17 | | > ''"I don't have the expectation that my blogging software ... will now handle storing my annotations for me."'' |
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| 19 | | So I don't see WordPress as "my blogging software." I see WordPress as the CMS that hosts my website, which happened to include blogging. Why would I want to have to add another website at another domain in order to control my content across the web? To me WordPress is obviously the tool I would want to use for this. |
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| 21 | | BTW, I am just presenting the opposite side of your argument. And one that I subscribe to, obviously. |
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| 23 | | > ''"because it would just be something totally distinct from what I am using WordPress to do."'' |
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| 25 | | You are discussing features 2 and 3. But what about feature 1? |
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| 27 | | And remember that Web Annotations are much larger than comments. I proposed comments, but with this proposal there would be the infrastructure needed for plugins to support [https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-annotation-model-20170223/#motivation-and-purpose all motivations and purposes] of annotations. |
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| 29 | | > ''"But I just don't think that that is going to be something that the average existing WordPress install is going to want."'' |
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| 31 | | Question: For all these sites that you envision that would not want them, would they have comments using the WordPress comment system on their site? |
| | 3 | I had a longer reply, but I cut it down to just this: |