Guest emmalyneamell Posted January 29, 2016 Report Posted January 29, 2016 New to the site, trying to figure out how to vote on a story? Quote
WillowDarkling Posted January 29, 2016 Report Posted January 29, 2016 Moved this to the correct forum. As for the question, as far as I know the Voting function has been permanently disabled, due to the upgrade. But I'll let the more tech savvy ones tell you for certain. Welcome to the archive and happy writing. Quote
BronxWench Posted January 29, 2016 Report Posted January 29, 2016 The ratings feature has been disabled, and to be very honest, I don't think it will come back in the form it was formerly in. There were issues from time to time with that feature being used inappropriately, and if it does return, I doubt it will be as anonymous and subject to abuse as its previous incarnation. Quote
DemonGoddess Posted January 29, 2016 Report Posted January 29, 2016 No, it won't be anonymous. I'll actually be able to track back malicious downrating. It'll be awhile before it returns, it requires a complete rewrite of the function, as well as additional tables. Quote
Guest emmalyneamell Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 Okay, thanks for the help! Quote
Desiderius Price Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 on the tracking. Getting downvoted w/o explanation is both frustrating and discouraging (I've been on the receiving end of it before--and suspect they struck my current fic, but that's only got its first chapter so far.). Quote
DemonGoddess Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 The most common reason I've seen for downvoting is that the person who does this doesn't like a pair written about in the fandom. Quote
Desiderius Price Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 I'm in original fiction... it could be a dislike for a tag, dislike for not going straight for the smut, but without a review/message, it's a wild guess. I was planning to wait for a chapter or two, see if it persists before raising it as an issue, because it's tough to tell if its a legitimate (non-malicious) downvote or not. Quote
DemonGoddess Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 With the ratings being disabled, it doesn't matter at this point, really. Plus, there are other things I'll go in to about the ratings and how they'll come back, in the upcoming news post. Quote
Desiderius Price Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 Can the code be tweaked to hide the ratings until it's altered/updated? (Figure the ignorance is bliss POV) Quote
DemonGoddess Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 We're trying to NOT go in to the old code at all for any tweaks. Chances are high it'll cause big issues. Quote
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