This just popped up in my stream – at work.
I have no objection to that content (I quite enjoy it, actually), and I support the statement behind +Halfdan Reschat's post.
HOWEVER
I carefully segregate that content off into a little NSFW circle that I don't see unless I go specifically looking for it – while I'm NOT AT WORK.
When you +1 something, you're going to drop it into other people's streams in an automated fashion – and the feature has no idea what other people might want to see – or when, or where.
The two options you can exercise as an individual are:
A) Quit plussing anything but the most vanilla of content. This creates a chilling effect on the +1 process, and that's not good. Plussing something is a communication between you and the author that shows support, without rising to the level of having to create an otherwise worthless comment that says nothing but "Nice Post! I Approve!"
B) Change your setting so that your +1's remain private.
3) chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-highlighted-posts/kgmofgiembeapimonljnndbnjagdhfae
It should not be up to people who want to share stuff to hide away what they like; it should up to the people who don't want to see what others like to choose not to see it.
Happy to remove you from my circles.
Neither one of those unbreaks what should be an awesome feature.
Also, the Chrome plugin doesn't unbreak the feature for those using !Chrome as a browser.
Agree completely, +Jonathon Barton. I kind of went overboard and started to only +1 vanilla content and limited my +1 sharing to a couple people.
Share +1s with me! I'm ~le stalker~.
Also, uncircling the "offenders" means uncircling people that I really, really <3 a lot. Like +Sarah Rios or +Linda Dean. That's not exactly an acceptable solution.
There is also the issue of what Google's terms of service considers adult or unsuitable content. Plussing something barely controversial could turn into an admission of guilt by association. What's Google doing about that? Does this mean that plussing may lead to a breach of terms and subsequent account suspension? Food for thoughts.
I think that people that work from home or have jobs where this isn't a problem, unintentionally forget about the rest who do. I think that if G+ insists on this default, that the +1 stuff needs to be it's own tab/stream.
You lost me at however. 🙂
4) checking g+ at work is the same as checking Facebook at work. Don't do it on your workstation.
4) isn't an option IF you use G+ for work.
Google have dropped the ball on this. IF I set my plusses to everyone i would imagine my circle count dropping because of the nature of the things I like. Some of which are definitely NSFW 😉
My solution to that would be a second account for work.
i muted this post yesterday for the same NSFW reasons. now, since +Sarah Rios +1d it, its showing in my stream again. sigh. going to check out that chrome extension. thanks.
+Vita Haake hold on, it puts it back in your stream even after you mute? That's messed up. Have we sent a feedback for that yet?
+Vita Haake i think if someone plusses something and you don't want it in your stream you could put that person in a low priority or muted circle. Circle settings could be overriding mute settings for single posts… just spit-balling here.
Also, I apologize, I haven't been at desktop all week and have only quickly been checking notifications. I normally watch what I plus and only comment for posts like the one you took issue with yesterday (unless they are shared to a limited circle). I'm actively trying to avoid turning the plus feature off, but in the end I'd rather suck it up and axe it than lose good minions over it.
no, i muted the original. since this was a reshare of the original, it showed up again.
+Vita Haake Therein lies the rub, if you will.
This isn't a reshare of the original
I used Microsoft Clipping Tool to snip out the Mostly Safe For Work portion of the original post, and attached that as a JPG to this post to illustrate an issue with the +1 Automatic Reshare functionality.
Another issue appears
How did you get here, to this post, +Vita Haake?
How did this particular post show up in your stream?
You don't have me circled, and I don't have you circled!
It Is A Mystery
+Jonathon Barton she got here because I plussed the post. I'm just spreading this thing everywhere 😛
Lolololol!
+Sarah Rios is a virus 😛
Is that her areola?
Well, you could go look at +Halfdan Reschat's posts and find out for sure, +David Bliss. It's quite nice, and makes a fair point. Why is one OK, but not the other?
(They're both fine by me – and that's one reason I'm working so hard to quit working so hard for someone else…so I don't have to care about what my employer thinks about what pops up in my stream – my employer will be ME.)
+Brian Jurisch Our (fairly enlightened) corporate AUP
A) Explicitly allows for a level of personal use that is not intrusive to the work that needs to be done.
B) Guarantees that every user has a certain level of privacy. Despite the blanket stipulation that "your use of the Corporate IT Infrastructure may be monitored and examined at any time", doing so requires an official action (initiated by your supervisor, or one of their supervisors, and involving both HR and IT Security) to look specifically at any specific user's email, firewall transaction logs, shared drive, etc.
So, at least for the folks I work with, and for, Facebook and G+ are OK – so long as you keep getting the stuff you need to get done, done.
Sexuality is so skewed….double standards everywhere!