Following comments (and ratings!) on the new rating system, we have decided to withdraw the option of negatively rating posts. We don't mind if you negatively rate C4P's posts, but we don't want to discourage others posting at all.
Rather, we want this feature to help those who don't have as much time to read all the posts to quickly find posts others have found helpful. Obviously there are a lot of posts like that here already :) Therefore we are also changing the feature to better reflect this - instead of "rate" arrows there will be "helpful" thumbs-up.
Marking posts "helpful" is particularly important for those first-time users who have come to Car4play.com from search engines. Unfortunately this site will be unsustainable in the medium-long term if we cannot attract more traffic (and hence advertising revenue) from search engines.
This means that there will only be options to mark posts as helpful or offensive. It is only ever when posts are marked offensive that the community filter will trigger automatically. After a certain threshold, the post will be partially hidden, but still viewable. If the community continue to rate it as offensive it will be completely hidden.
We hope that the offensive marks will decrease work for the mods and help them to make better decisions. Although at the moment hardly any of the posts are in need of any moderation, both markings (helpful and offensive) are designed with new members and more posts in mind.
When you take the time to mark a post as helpful or offensive you really are helping the community. Now all registered members will have the option of marking posts, "regulars" will receive an additional mark in an effort to counter marking abuse. If you still can't stand the system, then please just ignore it - we hope it is not too intrusive.
Only "helpful" marks are available for this post, we're afraid, but comments are welcomed. However, this is a feature that will be staying, despite the fact that such changes always seem to be controversial at the time.
We are resetting the system so that all posts now start back at zero.
Last edited by: car4play on Thu 8 Apr 10 at 14:47
|
Positivity, Negativity - now Helpful or O.. new
Positivity, Negativity - now Helpful or .. new