Comments on: Opt In To Subscribing

By: Subscribe To Comments: Checked By Default Removed | More Than Scratch The Surface

Sun, 11 May 2008 12:33:46 +0000

[...] move from China. Since then, Mark Jaquith himself has written about this, and others such as the Weblog Tools Collection have picked the story up. I decided I’d go ahead and post this, because my point about it [...]

By: Jacob Santos

Jacob Santos — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:48:46 +0000

Actually, Azmeen, I was with Jeff, until Mark clarified the matter. I read the post and thought the same as Jeff. I just don’t care about Mark’s plugin to write about it, but err, not many people come to blog, so it might had been several months or years before the correction would had been able to be made.

Glad I didn’t make a similar post.

By: th13rteen

th13rteen — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:43:06 +0000

Hey Jeff thanks for sharing the name of the plugin with me. I appreciate it. Btw, nice blog. Pretty helpful.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:53:31 +0000

@Azmeen Perhaps you are right, but I believe there may be others who have read Mark’s post and came to the same conclusion. Then again, I might be the only one, but leaving this post the way it is with an edited portion allows for people to get the correct interpretation of the post. I explained my reasoning behind the post in the first place and I think that’s enough.

@th13rteen Look for a plugin called What Would Seth Godin Do and that should do what you want.

By: th13rteen

th13rteen — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:23:33 +0000

Hey what’s that plugin you are using to say “Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here…”? I want that. Its pretty cool. Please let me know.

Thanks

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:11:49 +0000

Wow talk about the lack of research before writing. With all the deleted portion (which is more than 50% of the post), it might as well not be written at all.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:26:52 +0000

Ok, I have revised the article and I hope it’s more in line with what really happened. I must of totally misread into your post Mark or at the very least, got the wrong idea/impression of what was going on. Let me know if the changes are satisfactory.

By: Ken Litscher

Ken Litscher — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:41:11 +0000

Lloyd, I’m not sure what you’re saying. It seems like you, Jeff and Mark are all saying them thing. The checkbox used to be checked by default (opt out). Now, it’s unchecked by default (opt in).

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:35:48 +0000

In earlier versions, Subscribe To Comments would leave the Subscribe Box check marked by default, causing anyone who commented to automatically be subscribed to that blog post.

It would give the site admin the option of having the box checked by default. Now there isn’t even an option. Before: option of opt-in or opt-out with default of opt-in for new installs. After: opt-in only, but with per-user checkbox stickiness. And yes, the change is old — I just have been getting a lot of e-mail about it and realized I never explained the change publicly.

By: John Baker

John Baker — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:34:07 +0000

Agreed. This is a much more honest and open way of dealing with people.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:34 +0000

Jeff, you may want to pull or significantly revise this article. As Mark describes it, it isn’t about the default behavior. For a long time it defaulted to being opt in, and now it isn’t even an option to have it opt out.

By: david

david — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:54:24 +0000

I think it’s been like that for at least a month. I didn’t even realize it was ever opt-out.