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Site Updates and New Managment
« on: March 11, 2012, 11:16:00 pm »
Alrighty, so big update time.
First off, clean up time. We have noticed that a few ARS have been inactive for a long time and while the 10 post rule doesn't count for their position we no longer believe that they are able to fulfill their duties and so we have demoted them from their ARS position.
Meishe91, z80man, calcdude84se and TsukasaZX we will miss you guys on the team and maybe if you are more active in the future we can give you back your position.

Secondly the administration team ( Deep, Netham and me ( Eeems ) ) have decided that while the voting system is nice, downvoting has caused too much controversy in the past due to people not understanding how it is suppose to be used. Because of this we have decided to remove the downvote option. Now you can only upvote posts.

Our third and last update is that we have hired two new administrators to bolster our dwindling numbers so without further ado, please welcome shmibs and qwerty to the manager team!
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 11:23:04 pm »
Congrats to everyone who got a promotion! :)
(And for those demoted, I hope you guys come back!)

It should be reminded that if you want to take away an upvote, just click on the thumb again and it will toggle the uprate off. :)

Just curious, will this change increase our ratings in any way?
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2012, 11:23:43 pm »
Quote from: alberthrocks on March 11, 2012, 11:23:04 pm
Congrats to everyone who got a promotion! :)
(And for those demoted, I hope you guys come back!)

It should be reminded that if you want to take away an upvote, just click on the thumb again and it will toggle the uprate off. :)

Just curious, will this change increase our ratings in any way?

No. Previous downvotes are not being removed, there will just be no future ones.
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2012, 11:23:56 pm »
Quote from: alberthrocks on March 11, 2012, 11:23:04 pm
It should be reminded that if you want to take away an upvote, just click on the thumb again and it will toggle the uprate off. :)

Just curious, will this change increase our ratings in any way?

Thanks for noting that for us and no it will not change anything else  other than the fact that there is no longer a downvote
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2012, 11:25:11 pm »
Hm, I guess that might be why Facebook don't hace a dislike button.

Also congrats shmibs and Qwerty, hope you can fulfill the hole I, Hot_dog and ztrumpet left.
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2012, 11:32:28 pm »
yeah i noticed lately that as soon as a newcomer sounds like  a bot or asks oslauncher help or his post has typos such as accidental caps lock, he gets -2 or so. I also noticed more waves of downvotes lately.

However, IMO if downvote is removed, you should replace the thumbs up icon with a "like" thumbs up modified image and make the report option more visible, since some less mature members will most likely restrain themselves less from trolling with downvoting removal (although those are usually the ones complainingabout downvotes . )

also it sucks that those staff do not post anymore. Hopefully they come back as member later.)

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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2012, 11:46:12 pm »
Question: are the demoted ars members being replaced?
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2012, 11:50:01 pm »
Grats on promotion Qwerty and Shmibs
I'd say they deserve it :D!
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2012, 11:53:58 pm »
Awesome, congrats, guys!
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2012, 11:56:06 pm »
btw what happened to Michael lee? O.O He's still listed as CoT with z80man, even though they didnt post in 2 months...
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2012, 12:07:55 am »
I wonder, can somebody remove their downvote on a post?
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2012, 12:18:00 am »
Nope, too late D:
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2012, 12:18:48 am »
You can press the upvote button, which would remove the downvote, then remove the upvote.
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2012, 12:48:24 am »
Congraulations to shmibs and qwerty on their promotion! :D
It's a nice change of pace from the past few weeks.

Also, I agree with the removal of the down-vote button. It would be nice to have a simple way of letting someone know they've made a mistake or have said something distaseful without making a big deal out of it or getting off topic, though.
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Re: Site Updates and New Managment
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2012, 12:55:52 am »
For that we usually let the person know publicly, but if it continues it's best that a PM is sent. Members can publicly warn, too, but only as long as they do not make up rules based on relious motives or something.
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