Thank you for stopping by. People join social network for fun and for sharing thoughts, but not everyone are willing to share their faces on other site. The social network allows you to disable/hide faces on certain sites, but still showing on other sites. It’s up to the viewer to hide their faces.

You’ve just made an interesting point. Yes. I sometimes see familiar faces on other blogs, which I am also interested in. However, it is not always the case, because of same interest. You see many familiar face on a blog because they were sent to the page from the discussion board. It happens all the time from BlogCatalog.

Well. personally, I don’t feel more interested in a blog which shows me 210 faces, even I know all those faces. I would just think that the site is more popular.

Secondly I woudl submit that yo are missing one of the most important factors in displaying these widgets. You are taking the load time anyways, but because you have hidden the widgets, you have hidden a great asset to your blog.

When people see those widgets that is instant social proof of your blog’s readership. There are certain people who I know are interested in reading the same things I’m interested in reading. If I see three or four of their faces on your widget, you can bet I’m going to pay some more attention to what you write.

I love those widgets. I got some really negative responses from some readers on BlogCatalog saying they don’t like to be seen on other sites. So they will not come back if those site has widget installed.

So I have to find a way to hide it. It also increase my page load time. It works for me and without annoying some of my readers.

Thank you for coming again!

I hide those widgets, so my viewer don’t even have chance to hide their avatar. I really want to see who is on my site. If I see the same face on all three widgets and everyday, I know they are my royal reader. I will try to find out what made them come back. I will analyze and come up the best content to my viewers. So who spy on who? On my site. I am the one spy on my reader? I have recently adjust the way I am blogging. It turns out that my viewer stay on my site longer and read my post. I think traffic is important. IF no one read it, it’s useless.

Thank you for visiting. I will check out your site and make my comments. Thanks!

Oh yes, I have the same mug shot on those three.

1. Sometime, it is so slow…
2. Some people don’t like to be seen…
3. Some people is spying on who you are…
4. I just want to …

1. well, it doesn’t on me
2. they can remove their avatar right? just simply click on their own avatar.
3. i don’t know what you mean?
4. well.. that’s a little show off actually, that we have a reader but, i don’t know.

does your trick working is just Hide it, or make those images not loaded?

if this just hide it, then reason #1 can be removed i think.

but, i don’t want to talk about the trick, i think your idea is great. i agree that some people may dislike their face (icon or avatar or whatever) shown up on others site. and they may don’t always have time or remember to removed their avatar from the widget.

nice post Terence.

PS: (Please feel free to remove this ps if you like)
Oh By the way, I convert WordPress Dashboard Theme to be available to use as Blogger Template here. if i may ask, how do you think about it? would you take a look and give me some critics or suggestion?

thank you

Thank you for visiting. Your comments was block as spam. So here you go. I need to clean up my template. Too much crap …