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+1 or -1 ? My experience with the Google “social” buttons on the Rodinhoods

In general, I don’t participate in forums. And I hardly ever post comments on blogs. Like 99% of the population, I tend to consume far more content than I produce.

 

Yet I am an active participant on the Rodinhoods, because I find it a worthwhile way to spend my time.

 

Getting on to the point – I noticed very recently that the Google +1 button (which is their equivalent of a Facebook ‘like’) had been integrated into the forum :

 

 

I was very happy when I saw this, as it would help me promote the forum further. Unfortunately, doing so resulted in the following :

 

Gah ! What gives, Google ?! Why can’t we use the +1 button when logged into a Google Apps account ?!

 

Any ideas on workarounds for this ? It honestly is a pain to login to my @gmail account just for this. I suspect that many other people must be facing the same problem.