WOW Another new feature!

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OK Members,

A few weeks ago you wanted the ability to rate dealers on how they conduct business.

Well now you can!

Simply go to our links section and rate a dealer, or any website for that matter. Please be fair, and dealers please do not rate yourselves. We will record your IP and you can only vote once so this should be very fair.

Rate the website based on your personal experiences, their web site, product selection or whatever. A rating from 1-10 is what you will be able to choose from.

If a dealer shows up in multiple catagories, you can rate them there as well. You may want to rate them in each catagory based on how they handle the products in that catagory.

Example: If a dealer has a great selection on one brand but not another you may want to adjust your rating for that dealer in that specific catagory.

Then when you view the page you will see dealers will have stars by their name.
The more stars the better the dealer is in the mind of our members.


Have fun rating the dealers and web sites. This will hopefully be a great service for you guys.

Five stars is the maximum rating.

To prevent spamming of our rating system you will only be able to rate one site per day or until we update the server.


More cool stuff on the way.

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Best Regards,
Mike Turber
BladeForums Site Owner and Administrator
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[This message has been edited by Mike Turber (edited 06 December 1998).]
 
Not only that, but if you have a site listed on our links page, you can have your visitors rate it from your pages! Simply click on the "Rate this site" link on your listing, and you will get the HTML code that you need to include on your pages!

The higher your rating, the better your score on the top 100 page, and guess where people are going to check....

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

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Great idea! One question, though... how do I get to the links section? Nothing remotely resembling one shows up on my screen. I even did a search, with no results.
 
Is there any way that you could change the wording to "rate the dealer" instead of "rate the site"? I think people may get confused and think we are rating the website (eg. layout, graphics, etc.) instead of the dealer (eg. prices, honesty, inventory, service, etc.).

Bernie

 
Bernie, unfortunately, we can't. The Ratings subroutine is site wide, if you change "Rate the site" to "Rate the dealer" all links will be changed the same way.

Sorry.

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

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The links page is on our front page.

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Best Regards,
Mike Turber
BladeForums Site Owner and Administrator
Lead - Follow or get out of the way!
www.wowinc.com



 
Hello,
First I would like to say that this is a great idea.

FYI :

One little bug right now though I rated one site, went to rate another and I recieved a messaged that I already rated it, so I tried a third and I recieved the same massage.
 
That's not a bug, it's intentional.

The rating software only allows you to rate a site once per day, in order to prevent people from artificially inflating the rating of one site by multiple submissions.

This is done by IP tracking, and the software keeps a log of all IP addresses. We'll be reseting the log about once per day.

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

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