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Credit where it’s due – Now you can show your appreciation of great forum posts

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WTF does that even mean?

Undoubtedly you are familiar with the ability on various social platforms to ‘like’ a comment or a post. Well, now you can do just that on our forum. It’s not revolutionary but it means you can now express your appreciation of another forum user’s genius opinion by giving them a Singletrack Credit. It’s a very simple additional function but we are looking forward to seeing how you use it. We think it looks like a Singletrack gold coin or something. Maybe we will let you ‘spend’ them in the future. Who knows.

See that gold coloured doohickey? Click it and the number below it goes up one. Click it again and it goes down one.

A few things to note

Rating systems on various platforms have been a source of abuse and there are many examples of how they have been used to harass and even bully individuals. It sounds a bit OTT but this is why currently you can only give a positive rating to a post. You can’t give a negative rating although you can change your mind and remove your credit at any time. That’s not say we won’t at some point enable a down rating but we are going to see how it is used first.

This is a simple start and we will be building more functions in to this system in the future, such as filtering options, total scores etc. We may even let you spend the credits you have earned.

Members only – for now

For the first few days only Full Members can show their love, but that will change to all registered members – There’s a lot of you and we want to ensure that it doesn’t break anything.

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Mark Alker

Singletrack Owner/Publisher

What Mark doesn’t know about social media isn’t worth knowing and his ability to balance “The Stack” is bested only by his agility on a snowboard. Graphs are what gets his engine revving, at least they would if his car wasn’t electric, and data is what you’ll find him poring over in the office. Mark enjoys good whisky, sci-fi and the latest Apple gadget, he is also the best boss in the world (Yes, he is paying me to write this).

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    kayak23
    Full Member

    Woah 😳

    13
    ta11pau1
    Full Member

    *Like*

    The subscribe button, is that also new?

    11
    nuke
    Full Member

    So you can like your own posts 😄

    Can you see who’s liked your post?

    11
    dangeourbrain
    Free Member

    Makes the forum come alive

    37
    a11y
    Full Member

    Post

    7
    endoverend
    Full Member

    Sociological experiment incoming

    4
    desperatebicycle
    Full Member

    Can you see who’s liked your post?

    I tried to like yours so you could test it and it told me I had to be logged in. So guess it’s not quite ready for production 😀

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    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    I can not like ….. why could that be ?

    Is it for the privileged few only ?

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    leffeboy
    Full Member

    VOLVO FOR SALE

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    thepurist
    Full Member

    <div id=”post-12713708″ class=”bbp-reply-header d-flex justify-content-between w-100″>
    <div class=”bbp-reply-author d-flex align-items-center flex-wrap”><span class=”bbp-author-name”>FunkyDunc</span>
    <div class=”bbp-author-role”>
    <div class=””>Free Member</div>
    </div>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div class=”p-0 loop-item-8 user-id-1562 bbp-parent-forum-11968556 bbp-parent-topic-12713686 bbp-reply-position-9 odd post-12713708 reply type-reply status-publish hentry”>
    <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>

    I can not like ….. why could that be ?

    </div>
    </div>

    <div class=”p-0 loop-item-8 user-id-1562 bbp-parent-forum-11968556 bbp-parent-topic-12713686 bbp-reply-position-9 odd post-12713708 reply type-reply status-publish hentry”>
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    Is it for the privileged few only ?

    The article says it’s only for paying members for a couple of days, but everyone can share the love soon.

    </div>
    </div>

    Edit – I see the new desktop text editor is working well 😀  Ah well, maybe one day soon we’ll get a like button and the ability to quote text in our posts.

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    tthew
    Full Member

    Now we need a leaderboad of ‘liked’ posts. Daily, weekly annual and all time.

    Like Strava but for people who are no longer capable of actual KOM/QOM’s.

    Edit. Oh, hang on, that’s sort of covered in the article.

    I demand the down-vote function is initiated immediately so I can chastise myself.  Along with all the free members who also didn’t read it properly. 😁

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    snotrag
    Full Member

    Can someone upvote this on Pinkbike?!

    2
    sc-xc
    Full Member

    VOLVO FOR SALE

    [Redacted] GOES INTO ORBIT

    6
    scotroutes
    Full Member

    Bollocks to that, I’ve just noticed the “Back to top” button again. When did that put in an appearance?

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    thenorthwind
    Full Member

    Tried to like the announcement on the forum and just got a spinning wheel of death.

    Inadvertently liked several posts on the way down here because apparently that’s where my thumb normally goes to scroll on my phone.

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    Del
    Full Member

    I demand the down-vote function is initiated immediately

    If you can’t say anything nice… 🙂

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    tthew
    Full Member

    Inadvertently liked several posts on the way down here because apparently that’s where my thumb normally goes to scroll on my phone.

    You need to enable left-handed mode in your profile.

    1
    desperatebicycle
    Full Member

    Does it show GOLD to you members?

    2
    dangeourbrain
    Free Member

    Did it break already?

    3
    mogrim
    Full Member

    this is nearly as awsum as surfmat!

    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    Does it show GOLD to you members?

    Only once I’ve clicked it so I know I’ve clicked it and can un click it if I want to.  Got that?

    1
    slackboy
    Full Member

    thats nothing, the paid for classified now say “featured” . which has completely blown my mind.

    1
    desperatebicycle
    Full Member

    Only once I’ve clicked it so I know I’ve clicked it and can un click it if I want to.  Got that?

     

    Thanks. I can only dream of the golden coin of membershipz

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    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    We think it looks like a Singletrack gold coin or something. Maybe we will let you ‘spend’ them in the future. Who knows.

    That’s not say we won’t at some point enable a down rating

    No, no, no, I have a way better idea.  Enable ‘down votes’ but don’t allow willy nilly down voting.  Instead sell down votes in small quantity’s, say £10 for a thousand that any registered member can use as they wish.  You will make an absolute killing in the usual old lengthy threads.

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    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    Thanks. I can only dream of the golden coin of membershipz

    Sorry but this feature really does have to be restricted to those who can handle the power.  It’s not for the riffraff

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    Bunnyhop
    Full Member

    I still haven’t mastered the art of putting a photo up, so anything else and my tiny brain will explode.

    4
    thenorthwind
    Full Member

    You need to enable left-handed mode in your profile.

    Is that like incognito mode? 😉

    2
    the-muffin-man
    Full Member

    Has the upgrade disabled the normal post editor – I’m only getting fancy one now. And it doesn’t work, and I don’t like it! 😭🤣

    I’m used to typing in code!

    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    my tiny brain will explode.

    Look on the bright side, probably not enough explosive to even blow your nose 🤣

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    Mark
    Full Member

    First tweak. You now CAN’T like your own posts 🙂

    1
    MSP
    Full Member

    I find it a bit of an odd implementation, I would rather it be on the bottom of the post, or maybe the top right hand side, the number beside the first line is just a bit visually distracting, maybe I will just get used to it, could be my dyslexia creating a small additional thought process to separate the number from the actual post.

    1
    hardtailonly
    Full Member

    Now we need a leaderboad of ‘liked’ posts. Daily, weekly annual and all time.

    Like Strava but for people who are no longer capable of actual KOM/QOM’s

    “Congratulations … you are the like-al legend of forum segment ‘Rishi! Sunak!'”

    1
    fazzini
    Full Member

    Erm, like is liked, but the ‘floating’ arrow pointing upwards has disturbed me no end 😂

    tetrode
    Full Member

    r/singletrackworld

    gray
    Full Member

    I really like the up arrow to jump to the top of the page. I’d love a down arrow to jump to the bottom though. That would be much more useful to me (especially since on iOS you can just tap the clock to jump to the top anyway).

    1
    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    I’d love a down arrow to jump to the bottom

    Click the minutes ago on the right of the thread for that

    timmys
    Full Member

    Down votes please. I can never remember the user names of the resident conspiracy theorists and tories, so would good to be able to identify their posts easily.

    3
    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Yeah yeah, where’s the like button?

    1
    Northwind
    Full Member

    I love how it makes all posts look a bit like crossword clues. 2 across, 12 letters “Goes into orbit”

    gray
    Full Member

    Click the minutes ago on the right of the thread for that

    Ace, thank you!

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