Talk:Identiquette

Sorry, if I sound harsh, I just had to write my thoughts about etiquette down, before I forgot them again :) RFC please! Feel free to delete parts of the article and move it here if you disagree with me. --and3k 17:55, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

The soccer/football example
Maybe not the best example, but in this case both groups mean english/european football. Also the !soccer group itself says to use !football instead. Feel free to change to a better example! --and3k 20:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Recycling symbols
Draft for the article: To save characters and be independent of the platform (Dent vs Tweet) it is possible the replace the RD, RT or via phrase with any recycling symbol: ♻, ♺, ...


 * Strongly recommend against this; no mobile platform I've yet found includes these characters in default fonts, and I'm not convinced that default Windows installs do so reliably either. --brion
 * my opinion is that we should be setting the bar higher or these dodgy clients will never have reason to improve themselves. So users see a few boxes … isn't taking the best forward-looking course of action more important? HughB 21:31, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * There's no particular reason to expect that every device will or should include every arbitrary Unicode character in its default font set. If you're just going to assume that because a character is assigned it's always going to visible on a wide spectrum of clients (or will be in the future), I'm afraid you're going to be badly disappointed. :) --brion 22:34, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I assumed it was a standard Unicode character that should be supported in any modern Unicode implementation. Didn't know Unicode had arbitrary chars. Can you tell I'm out of my i8n depth here? :) I stand corrected. HughB 12:40, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, in a basic Win XP SP3 installation, the symbols cannot be displayed (IE and Firefox). Don't know about MacOS. Should be no problem in any linux distro where unicode is supported/enabled--and3k 20:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Known to not have fonts supporting recycle symbol:
 * IE + Windows XP SP3
 * Firefox + Windows XP SP3
 * iPhone / iPod Touch 3
 * Android phones
 * Blackberry phones
 * Windows Mobile phones

Known to support recycle symbol with default fonts:
 * Firefox + (some?) Linux desktops
 * Firefox + Mac OS X 10.5/10.6

What are this group's thoughts on "automatic playlist posters" (aka "@person is now listening to -- some random song")?