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Social network buttons in these forums?!  Ouch.... I thought a forum was already a kind of social network.

At least, make the buttons more discrete, please... my eyes hurt.

I have seen them all in gray in other places, and small, and they get color only when you hover the mouse over them.

[#2]

A nice compromise I should think.

[#3]

Shouldn't they be located in you profile page? Or at least off to the side under your user name? Scanning though a thread will many single line posts is a little obnoxious at the moment...

[#4]

In another forum, there was a poll to find out how many of the users of the forum were willing to use those buttons for social networks, and the result was very, very low. Have you asked this kind of survey here before implementing these buttons?

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And by the way - I think the addition of more buttons and icons littered across the screen is going to DECREASE the likelihood that new users will find and click on Kudos or Accept Solution.

Simple is better! Less is more! I like these forums because the are organized and clear, and that virtue is slowly ebbing away in my opinion. Of course, that's not everyone's opinion, but there are many who think that way too, so (as with the avatars) I hope there will be an option to hide these.

[#6]

Under the Forum name would be better as well.

Maybe us "orangies" are just sticks in the mud and all the rest are looking for this interoperability?

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CADastrophe wrote:

And by the way - I think the addition of more buttons and icons littered across the screen is going to DECREASE the likelihood that new users will find and click on Kudos or Accept Solution.

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That's exactly the effect that those buttons were causing in that other forum. At the end, the lesson learned was that any changes to the interface should appear only as a result of a need that has been proved certain by a previous survey or poll among the users, not appear all of a sudden without this previous consultation with the community.

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I absolutely hate... HATE... the new additions to the end of all of my posts.  I've enjoyed many of the changes up until now, but this one is ridiculous and pollutes the look and feel of the forum.  I made recommendations a long time ago to keep this kind of flashy non-business stuff out of the forum.  Do we really need to promote the social networking with flashy graphics on EVERY SINGLE POST?  Distracting... 

If Autodesk wants them there, can't they be placed under the Options pull down, or perhaps maybe in the title header?  Placing them under all of our signature lines goes a bit too far.

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TravisNave wrote:
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If Autodesk wants them there, can't they be placed under the Options pull down, or perhaps maybe in the title header?  Placing them under all of our signature lines goes a bit too far.

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 Totally agree!

[#10]

Hey guys, we hear ya loud and clear!  I love it that you all have opinions and a sense of ownership in this community,

The hard part is always there there is just a smalll group here that posts - you are of course very important to the community, but are representative of only a part of it.  We do have data from our forum survey that shows members do use social media, which is why we wanted to offer some social channels to help spread good answers and ideas.  In addition, we'll measure on the back end if it's being used - if we find no, then certainly we'll pull it.

For now we do want to include social sharing, but we'll review your suggestions and toning it down a bit.  And we'll give you some heads up next time ;-)

Thanks as always,

Brian