jordynscheermom
Cheer Parent
- Sep 20, 2013
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I have added new post rating abilities to the board. You can now positively rate posts (Shimmy, Like, Funny, and Informative) as well as negatively rate posts (Dislike, Old, Gossip, and Bullying).
Eventually your positive posts will determine what gets tweeted out to let everyone know something interesting is going on.
Your negative ratings will help lower the amount of negative threads and help moderators keep track of them. Possibly allowing users to close threads if voted to close enough or flag for moderation.
Enjoy the new system!
Personally I think this is a great thing! A great start to something that can definitely change and evolve.
I like to participate in "Yahoo! Answers", which is much like this board for many different topics (I typically like to do the politics/government area), and they have the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" ratings for responses to questions that others can vote on. The originating question for the thread users can choose to respond or not. There are moderators for all forums on the board, and the "questions" initiating the thread have to be approved prior to being posted. If it violates their "rules" for questions, it is removed. If responses violate rules, they can be removed. If there are so many removals in a two-week period, or if your posts are reported so many times over a certain period, you are first blocked from using the forum for a period of time (a "time-out"), a second time, your account is "suspended" for a 6-month period, a third time you are removed from the forum. Just an idea. This is totally in the control of the moderators for each section of the forum, and the only time that users can be involved is if you "report" a question or a user. Even then, you have to jump through hoops in order for your report to be considered. I have only seen 7 or 8 accounts actually fall victim to this on Yahoo!, but it is apparent. I have the very same account I have had with it since starting in 2006. Just so no one thinks I am speaking from experience. LOL
I definitely think this step will help with the "general public" perception of Fierce Boards being "scary". That is the response I hear from those that know what it is. They often refer to the users as "mean" (though I have never encountered that personally), but I have seen the threads where "mean" would be an appropriate description. IMHO