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01 AUGUST 2014 - Better Voting system
Have improved voting system and took me days to get it working for IE 8 version ! We might soon stop support for IE 8 since Microsoft stopped support of Windows XP and trust you know that we recommend Firefox browser, latest version for best performance. Following changes done in detail
- Change in voting system We are shifting from "Helpful" grading to voting system with negative points too. We expect to promote great content, query and doubts and shun spams, repeated and useless topics. We expect new voting system will do just that ! Present voting system has basic Up and down vote attached to each comment and reply. We will improve it with time but presently it should be a good indicator of quality content.
- Points system changed again Points are changed again with this voting system, and may change again in future. We intend to add more authority and privilege depending upon points. Most details are already listed in "POINTS" under your profile. You can check how I earned my points here.
- Removed Thank button Since we moved towards the tagging system, all content creation came under your profile. Initially we wanted "Thank you" button as an additional token of appreciation since previously "Merchant Navy Forum" was separate from "Blog", but when we merged it, I think it started creating confusion with "Follow button" (We got a query if thanking someone would automatically make him follow ?). So no more Thank button anymore, simply upvote !
- More Formatting options We support BBCODE for formatting of content, and we have added more features including HTML Tables, Youtube videos and simple Smiley. A list of all BBCODE we support can be found here and we have plans to add more in future.
- Follow Suggestions We are also starting Follow suggestion for everyone, with an intention to promote more quality content writers and better connection, we expect Follow suggestion will help both our website and you in the long run. We also have future plans to improve and integrate this feature seamlessly throughout our website. Presently we are facing some problem related with it, hopefully things should be fine by this month end.
- Connecting more maritime countries Few years ago when we started www.jahajee.com our purpose was simple, to allow exchange of maritime oral questions, we kept improving it and soon added more required features. We opened free inclusion of Maritime colleges and Shipping companies last year and are getting request from some more countries to include them for free. In our effort to connect all mariners and a mission to help world mariners find free information we are adding maritime college and companies of various nation now (India, Philippines and USA). We intend to be a one place website for Seafarers irrespective of nationality in near future.
Since downvotes are taken very seriously, to avoid its misuse, only people with more than 200 points will be able to down vote a post presently. Note that each down vote, deducts 5 points of content writer and also deducts 1 point of voter !
