A prerelease version of the next StumbleUpon toolbar for Firefox is now available.
Prominent changes in this release include:
Adds a thumbdown menu featuring the following options:
Not-for-me ~ This doesn't suit me.
Stumbled this before ~ This content was in a previous stumble.
Too much like this lately ~ Baby animals are nice, but that's enough for now.
Adds website blocking via the thumbdown menu for FF 3.x users.
Fixes a bug in FF 3.x bookmark integration that could cause a tag to be applied upon rating thumbdown.
Adds options to report a stumble as 'Factually incorrect' or 'Unsafe'.
Adds more convenient reporting of incorrect topic via an optional reporting menu. See the 'Show topic as' item on the Configuration tab of Toolbar Options.
When topic is displayed as a menu (for reporting incorrect topic), other reporting items are located on this menu rather than on the Tools menu.
The beta has been refreshed with a change to support the three types of thumbdown in Flock and FF2. I expect that website blocking won't be supported in Flock and FF2.
re #1 ,one of the bulleted items .who's gonnae decide whether a stumble is "factually incorrect" or "unsafe" and what sets of parameters can/will be used tae define those terms ? should'n't ye follow wiki etc and just flag the stumble as "unverified" or "needs validation/confirmation" or simply" warning! pornography" etc? if someone flags a stumble as "factually incorrect" surely they have to provide links disproving it? will these links be available and can removal be retrospective if the comments are unfounded?.maybe slightly off topic here ,as it's a FF forum.
toolbar: mozbar 3.26 xpi browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17 noscript: 1.8.3.6 [enabled] greasemonkey: 0.8.20080609.0
The beta has been refreshed with an important bugfix.
tartanarmyof2:
There's a strong possibility that we'll be able to identify individuals who reliably identify factually incorrect content in limited domains. We'll see what we can do with this quick reporting before burdening the user with additional data entry.
For 'unsafe' pages, we're experimenting with how this reporting compares with two other sources of data. The url will suffice for now.
joewalp
richm711
tartanarmyof2