Give someone a smooch!

After much discussion on a previous blog entry, the “secret admirer” idea has emerged on BookMooch as the “give someone an anonymous smooch” feature.

This new feature is now available on BookMooch, and you’ll see a “smooch” button in the “bio” page for each member (on the top right, near the “report abuse” button).

Once you click the “smooch” button, you get a form which explains the feature a bit more, and gives you the opportunity to leave a note:

The confirmation page tells you what your note was, and that the email notification was successfully sent to them.

The anonymous smooches are nonetheless part of their “public record”, right under their feedback.

and anyone can see the date, and the note that was left, but not who gave the smooch.

The smooch does appear in the points log for both the giver and the recipient, so there is a little bit of a hint there, but I think this is important, so that people can see how their point scores are working.

Finally, the recipient gets a notification email from the BookMooch system, with the giver’s note, and a short explanation:

I’ll happily entertain rewrites of any of the text above, to make it cuter/friendlier/clearer.