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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: smallthings</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/smallthings.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-10-31T16:56:28+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/31/love/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-10-31T16:56:28+00:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T16:56:28+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/31/love/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://benbrown.com/says/2007/10/29/i-love-my-chicken-wire-mommy/"&gt;I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Ben Brown discusses Consumating’s points system, and the problems that it caused within the site’s community. I’m always fascinated by how small features like this can have an enormous effect on how people use a site.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.waxy.org/links/archive/2007/10/index.shtml"&gt;Andy Baio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ben-brown"&gt;ben-brown&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/consumating"&gt;consumating&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/points"&gt;points&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/smallthings"&gt;smallthings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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