Thank you, Jeff, for being so open to feedback and so transparent about your decision-making process. I really appreciate your taking the button down.

Thank you!

Thank you. I was going to add a vote to remove but instead let me give you positive feedback.

Thank you Mr. Stelle.

Not Karen Wollstengroft:

I believe that what you observed is Google getting a little too smart for its own good and causing undue concern about the +1 button. Based on my experiences, hovering over the +1 shows your Google account login and says that it will publicly post under that name. In fact, if that name does not have a Google Profile -- as is the case with your work account -- it will not work unless you first create a Google Profile. This is confusing and results in the +1 button being more controversial than it needs to be.

At any rate, I've seen enough. I just removed the button. I had planned to last night, but got busy with Halloween and then went to bed early. Google likes to have 5 days of data for tests, but I have three and that will have to suffice.

Hi Jeff,

I learned something about the +1 button today, experimentally, that I thought I'd share to help you make a decision about whether to keep it or not. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm against it, but was planning on simply avoiding it if it stays.

I have a google profile with my personal gmail account and can clearly see that when I hover over the +1, I see the name that I use for my personal gmail account and only google profile. Just as I would expect and as you spell out upthread.

But, my work uses google apps for our work email. Recently, google announced that you couldn't be logged into a google app at the same time you were logged into your personal proflie (used to be I could be logged into work gmail and personal gmail at the same time, in different tabs). Now, google makes you log out and log in and the accounts are linked. I hope this makes sense.

Tonight, I was logged into my work email (and I don't have a google profile under this name) and when I hovered over the +1, my work email name (in other words, my full name) showed up in the call out. This makes me concerned because while I might not mind if I mistaken hit it and you all found out my name is Karen, I would be fairly upset if you know my name was Karen Wollstengroft.

(BTW, my name is not Karen Wollstengroft.)

Thanks, and thanks for the work you do to make this an interesting place, even though you can't make all the people happy all the time.

another no on the +1.

I HATE IT. You know what's funny, on porn sites there is a plus 1, imagine accidently clicking it next to some crazy porno and it showing up in your google circles LOL.

An accidental +1 could ruin my professional reputation. Please get rid of it.

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Anonymous wrote:
Which should we give up to protect our anonymity - gmail or dcurbanmom? Both you and your google contact are very short-sighted.


ITA. I hate it. I think you also might need a better understanding of your business model. Google may technically provide the site's revenue, but they do that in exchange for eyeballs/users. So, um, we're providing you with a little revenue too.

+1 to this.

But as to the +1 button itself, count me firmly in the NO WAY camp. I use my gmail professionally, and my user name is firstname.lastname. I am always logged in. As entertaining as bouquet snatching, dirty dice and She Who Must Not Be Named have been, they are not worth making an utter, public ass of myself by accidentally clicking the time bomb lurking at the bottom of DCUM's salacious topic of the week. Because let's face it -- Murphy's Law says that I'm going to click +1 on the latest discussion of bedroom techniques, not the mundane roll call of kids' Halloween costumes. I'm gone until/unless the button goes away.

Btw, remind your Google overlords that the general readership here is not of an age that wants/needs to share its every thought, opinion or adventure with the wider world. This may appeal to those young whippersnappers, but it's not really part of our psychographic makeup.

I don't think its a big deal. At all. Overreactions all up in this mug.

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Anonymous wrote:Which should we give up to protect our anonymity - gmail or dcurbanmom? Both you and your google contact are very short-sighted.

ITA. I hate it. I think you also might need a better understanding of your business model. Google may technically provide the site's revenue, but they do that in exchange for eyeballs/users. So, um, we're providing you with a little revenue too.

I agree, 100,000 times over.

Anonymous wrote:Which should we give up to protect our anonymity - gmail or dcurbanmom? Both you and your google contact are very short-sighted.

ITA. I hate it. I think you also might need a better understanding of your business model. Google may technically provide the site's revenue, but they do that in exchange for eyeballs/users. So, um, we're providing you with a little revenue too.

Another poster that doesn't like the +1. I just got a Google profile and haven't played around with it yet to really tweak any of the default settings. But yes, I am also concerned of accidentally hitting it, and being somewhat technologically challenged making something personal unintentionally public.

Anonymous wrote:Which should we give up to protect our anonymity - gmail or dcurbanmom? Both you and your google contact are very short-sighted.

How about instead of being rude you try to be thoughtful? You are not giving up your anonymity. Gmail has nothing to do with it. Giving up Gmail would not change a thing. I'd love one of you who are so sure that your deepest secrets are automatically being disclosed to everyone on earth because of a simple button to explain to me how you think such a thing is occurring. It's simply not happening. What is happening is that you are massively over-reacting.

Which should we give up to protect our anonymity - gmail or dcurbanmom? Both you and your google contact are very short-sighted.