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Link to TV Tropes?

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Southparkfan (talkcontribs)

"This wiki also now has its own page on there." <- that text links to a Facebook page of TV Tropes, not All The Tropes. Is there a page of All The Tropes?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Doesn't look like it. We should probably have one -- albeit managed by someone other than me who can actually devote time to it. (I don't even bother with my own Facebook account anymore...)

In the mean time I've nuked the TVT reference.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

I h8 teh Facebook, so does Vorticity, but if someone is willing to set up an All The Tropes Facebook page, lemme know.

Labster (talkcontribs)

I've been trying to figure out how to do marketing of the wiki without using social media, or whether it would be a good idea to put "like/+1" buttons on our pages. That seems like a lot of unnecessary user tracking, or a bit of javascript hackery.

Ultimately, what it comes down to is that I really do not like Facebook. I have an account that I check every six months or so for messages, but the site is really boring. And any plan that requires me to login to the facebook is going to end in failure.

So what we have is three admins who don't want to be on Facebook, but a feeling that it's necessary to do so to promote the site. Something seems innately wrong about that. But suffice to say, if anyone wants to create a page on Facebook for us, go ahead—So long as you'll enjoy maintaining it.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

There are gadgets/user scripts to share links about us on social media, so that can be addressed.

Labster (talkcontribs)

As I said to you in IRC (this is really for other people's benefit), a lot of the issue of embedding share buttons is that you're enabling tracking of those users. It's like giving CheckUser to Facebook's employees.

Most of the best ways to get around it require 2-click loading of the sharing widgets -- that is, not loading the JS until a positive action from the user indicates intent to share information with an external site. And then having it globally disableable with a gadget toggle, or a cookie for not-logged-in users. It's not trivial to implement something like that without harming user privacy, because the whole point of those facebook/stumbleupon/google+/digg/linkedin badges is to invade user privacy throughout the web. You have to subvert its functionality by sandboxing it, and wrapping it in JS.

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