Comments on: Keeping in touch

By: fanless

fanless — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:33:23 +0000

“When you add someone as a “Contact,” you will appear in their “Fans” tab as well.”

Yeah, we know. I’d like to have a few contacts in my network myself. And I don’t mind having fans, AS LONG AS I CAN APPROVE OF THEM FIRST. Until the option is given to us to give permission PRIOR to them becoming “fans”, I’ll keep my network closed, thank you very much.

By: Al Scusi

Al Scusi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:29:51 +0000

I want fans…. but I want to choose them BEFORE they get to see who else is in my Contact & Fan base.

Having recently had a cheeky spammer try to rifle through several of my friends profiles I am aggravated by the continued absence of common sense security on this feature. One look at the profile of the spammer would have told me he was up to no good.
I have even had 2 Fans I don’t remember ever getting notified about [I keep all such notices]

A fix for this is long overdue

By: Carl Parisien Natick MA

Carl Parisien Natick MA — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:21:49 +0000

I agree the feature has limited use. Give us something we can use. Carl Parisien Natick MA

By: Heir To A Dying Day

Heir To A Dying Day — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:31:51 +0000

This feature is worthless and will remain so until it’s properly configured. Fans and contacts should be permission based, just like any other form of contact on any other Y! service (360°, Profiles, Messenger) and most any other service offered by every other internet portal on the web. It’s irresponsible to offer a feature which lets trolls access your private Q&A then report you into oblivion before you receive any indication they’ve even tried. Wise up.

By: Triple B Stalls

Triple B Stalls — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:50:47 +0000

Just wondering if I wanted to increase the rank of my other pages does postings comments like this improve the rank of the page at all or is the link pretty much worthless