"Saved your reply"??

"Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom" (will-alib) 09/18/2019 at 12:51 • Filed to: None

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I noticed my notifications include replies to my comments and this ‘So-and-so saved y our reply’. WTH is that? And what is this “X is now following you’ all about? How do you follow someone on kinja? (and why?)

SO many questions. 

hillrat > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:00

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How do you follow someone on kinja? (and why?)

Click on their username/profile and hit the follow button. It creates a feed of posts from people you’re following, so if you’re really impressed by my witty comments you can see what kind of craziness I’m talking about over on the Root or Jezeble.

Discerning > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:00

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You have asked too many questions. You are now being followed. Be warned

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:00

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If you “follow” someone you can then go to dashboard to see all the posts for those you follow. You have to click on their profile and then click follow under the avatar to follow. I never use this feature. 

Ash78, voting early and often > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:07

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“Saving” has been Kinja’s term for “liking” for several months, I think they just changed the notifications to reflect that.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often 09/18/2019 at 13:08

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RAMBLINROVER SAVED YOUR REPLY TO THIS POST

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Ash78, voting early and often 09/18/2019 at 13:14

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Aha. Thanks for deciphering kinjaspeak for me. 

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Discerning 09/18/2019 at 13:15

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Aww shit..

Grindintosecond > Ash78, voting early and often 09/18/2019 at 13:20

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“Whgat shall I get started for you?”

Marketing. Oh, goodie someone is saving my story for later. ( It must be validatingly good....)

user314 > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:24

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jimz > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:30

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this is good, because before Kinja my replies hadn’t heard of our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 13:30

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Liked “this post”

BUT WHICH POST!!?!?!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 09/18/2019 at 13:41

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The worst.

facw > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 14:03

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Re: Following:

If you follow someone there are a couple benefits:

Any posts or comments by that user show up on your dashboard. (You also used to be able to follow blogs, but they removed that button (mostly, you can still find it by looking at what other users follow, so if you can find someone who follows a blog you want to follow, then you can follow it)

Depending on kinjas mood, you might see a check over their icon, which some people like as it exposes impersonators.

Also note, users followed by a blog will have their comments pre-approved on that blog, so they are out of the grays.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 14:11

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I mean you’re clearly asking for it.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 09/18/2019 at 14:36

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Huh. I guess I owe ya a beer now?

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 15:22

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For a follow? Handshake at best. Also take advice from Tina Fey. 

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/18/2019 at 17:17

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The ‘saved your reply’ is to let you know they’re saving it to use against you later.

And the ‘X is now following you’ is to let you know you now have an additional stalker.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 09/18/2019 at 18:12

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Nice.

#kinjacreeper

Urambo Tauro > Ash78, voting early and often 09/19/2019 at 10:48

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I hate that discrepancy.

As soon as Kinja took away our ability to recommend (star) posts, I avoided clicking the save ribbon unless there was a particularly lengthy article that I needed to save for later when I had more time to read it. But that also means I gotta “unsave” those posts after I do read them...

Sometimes I think about just ignoring the terminology displayed on my end and clicking the save ribbon to let authors know that I recommend/like their post, like we used to do. But now notifications are doubling down on the “save” terminology, so I can’t even use the feature to send that message.

This is stupid. Nobody needs Kinja to have a built-in feature for “saving” posts. Upvoting/liking/recommending is much more useful, and anybody who does need to save a post for later can add a bookmark in their browser instead.

S. Dole Melipone > Urambo Tauro 10/09/2019 at 22:51

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I would really like to recommend your reply!

S. Dole Melipone > S. Dole Melipone 10/10/2019 at 15:32

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maybe it means “saved” in the sense of saving your reply from the dustbin.  Like if no one “saves” your reply your reply will be deleted! 

waterdragon > Ash78, voting early and often 10/29/2019 at 23:18

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Thanks. I’ve had an account for - 10 years I think - and today discovered that someone “saved” my comment. Seemed really creepy to me. Glad to hear it’s so innocuous. But why, Kinja, why?