# "Nodding your head" in online communication

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [Fevereiro 3, 2013, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30 "2013-02-03T11:21:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![pekka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pekka/32/102153_2.png) [@pekka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pekka)\
**Post date:** [Fevereiro 3, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nodding-your-head-in-online-communication/30/3 "2013-02-03T11:40:26Z")

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> [@sams](#):
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> An extension could possibly surface that information in a aggregate way, eg: 30 users read this post. It does feel a bit like info porn to me.

Agreed. How about a compromise though - if I `@username` someone, show me when that user has seen my post? Facebook does this in PMs. If I see you read my post, and don’t respond within a minute, I can assume you’re not going to and lay the matter to rest.

Maybe it’s overthinking though. If this were a needed feature, somebody would probably have come up with it already.

> [@sams](#):
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> Keep in mind, we are trying to encourage conversation here, what would seem like chattiness in the Stack Exchange land, is often perfectly valid here.

True, true. Still, the issue of filtering out the signal from the noise remains an important one. It’ll be interesting to see what kinds of cultures Discourse will spark in this regard - especially seeing as there’s a dedicated team that will develop the product on a _cultural_ level, as well.

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