Tag Archives: ratings

Say hello to Recommendations

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Nick

Recommendations are the new black… err.. ratings. You know what I mean. I’m sure most of our regular users have noticed the new Recommendations feature that I soft-launched throughout the site a few days ago. As was kindly suggested by our beta … Continue reading →

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Ratings, hate-raters, and you

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Nick

I noticed a discussion topic in the Collaborative Corner this evening that I thought might be worth discussing on the blog. Without going into too much detail, a topic was originally created with a parting mention of “no hate raters”, as … Continue reading →

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Fake accounts and you

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Nick

Due to a spate of recent incidents regarding this subject, I feel the need to give everyone a little refresher on the site’s rules and regulations. While we’ve had our share of spammers and marketers clearly violating the rules of … Continue reading →

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Self-ratings go the way of the dodo

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Nick

As you may have noticed today — or may not, depending on how you rate stuff — I’ve gone ahead and made one of the changes I had suggested in one of the surveys I posted over the last couple of … Continue reading →

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An update from the front lines

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Nick

To quote that ever-energetic Scot, Craig Ferguson: hello, my lovelies! I’m back with another non-weekly-roundup to beat those summer blues — in fact, I’m even contemplating ditching my prior ”weekly roundup” posts altogether in favour of a new, less periodic approach. Folks seem … Continue reading →

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