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

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

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.

Latest Singletrack Merch

Buying and wearing our sustainable merch is another great way to support Singletrack

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

Mark has been riding mountain bikes for over 30 years and co-owns Singletrack, where he's been publisher for 25 years. While his official title might be Managing Director, his actual job description is "whatever needs doing" – from wrangling finances and keeping the lights on to occasionally remembering to ride bikes for fun rather than just work. He's seen the sport evolve from rigid forks to whatever madness the industry dreams up next, and he's still not entirely sure what "gravel" is. When he's not buried in spreadsheets or chasing late invoices, he's probably thinking about his next ride.

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