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

    Never been on a forum where the long-term experience got better when ratings were introduced.

    ampthill
    Full Member

    We’ll see hope it goes

     

    There’s are down sides to likes. It’s another thing that gets  measured and suddenly half of us are below average

     

    Of course if I’m above average I’ll see it differently

    doomanic
    Full Member

    Likes are great and all, but I’d much rather see an option to jump to first unread post.

    fatbikeandcoffee
    Free Member

    Then there’s people like me that couldn’t care less if liked or not.

    Where no doubt others will measure self worth by them  …

    :/

    James

    robertajobb
    Full Member

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    Norwester
    Full Member

    I hope I don’t get any of these gold coin thingy’s. Just tell me I’m ace! 😉

    BadlyWiredDog
    Full Member

    For ages I’ve avoided using ‘WTF’ on the forum in case it constituted some form of abbreviated swear filter avoidance, but there is is in an actual editorial article subhead. I feel slightly cheated 🙁

    the-muffin-man
    Full Member

    I think you broke the editor with this update – seeing loads of code in posts that shouldn’t be there – like this below…

    Only fancy editor available too (which doesn’t always work!). 🙂

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    @the-muffin-man +1

    I’ve reported your post so that the mods can draw it to the attention of the tech team.

    [Mod] Tech are aware of this.  Thanks.

    thols2
    Full Member
    hardtailonly
    Full Member

    Well, we’re nearly there … 99 and counting!

    thols2
    Full Member

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