Usability Yes. Social Features, Uh-Oh.

I understand your position and I'm sure you understand mine.

They're irreconcilable, so I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

To my mind, without some feature to support people gathering in groups there is no social networking recommendation. Groups are at the heart of all social networking sites. Even Twitter, which doesn't explicitly group people, will have tacit/loose groups simply by virtue of the fact that people share friends and interests with each other.

So really the question now becomes whether you are willing to allow this recommendation to be submitted. If you're firmly against it being submitted then that leaves us at stalemate, since obviously I'm equally passionate about the opposite view.

I guess that means we'd have to draw on input from others and see what the consensus is.

As I understand it, Philippe has been calling for more input for this wiki and inviting people to look at the recommendations. So, if we do get new eyes looking at it, we can hope to see which way the wind blows.

Apologies, this post sounds like a bit of a huffy, almost ultimatum like post. It's not meant to be. I definitely understand your concerns and I enjoy your contributions and our discussions. But, as I say, I feel that it is impossible to provide networking without enabling groups (both good and bad). I hope I'm on the winning side of this argument as it's something I think could be quite spectacular. But I respect your opposition.