Minekey delivers over 3 million Received Opinions to the users every day. We received requests from several users to improve the grouping of Received Opinions. Grouping items at such a volume required an improvement in the core architecture of Minekey application.

We are glad to announce that we have implemented the new architecture successfully and we will be rolling out the improved version of Received Opinions shortly. Since, the new architecture is likely to be subjected to huge load levels – we will be rolling this out first on Minekey website followed by Minekey Facebook version. We plan to roll out the improved Received Opinions Management on Minekey.com later today. Subject to resolving any initial issues we plan to roll it out on Minekey Facebook version tomorrow.

The improvised version of Received Opinions will have opinions shared by multiple people grouped as a single item to help users view and respond to their Received Opinions quickly. Further, we have segmented the Received Opinions into folders to easily view the Opinions created and shared by your Friends and Following.

We are hopeful that the improved Received Opinions Management will help you interact with the received content much more efficiently, thereby enabling you to express and share more content on Minekey.

We just launched the Minekey Activity Rewards system. Starting today you will earn Golden Eggs for all your Minekey activity. Check out the Rewards Scorecard for more details (Minekey.com users: http://www.minekey.com/rewards-help, Minekey Facebook users http://apps.new.facebook.com/minekey/documents/rewards?bpst).

As mentioned earlier, we have awarded 20% credit for the user activity prior to launch to recognize the earlier contribution, while ensuring that some of the early users don’t start with an unfair advantage.

More eggs for you! How do you like them? Fried, scrambled or boiled …

The race is on! Go ahead and start grabbing as many Golden Eggs without worrying about how to cook them or sell them in the market. We are exploring ways to make these Egg rewards you earn for your participation on Minekey more tangible by partnering with non-profit organizations, online game communities and micro-payment providers. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email us at community AT minekey DOT com.

Over the last 30 days, Minekey community members rated over 500,000 times by throwing Golden Eggs at the content they liked and Rotten Eggs at the content they disliked. Thank you all for such an overwhelming support for the Minekey Content Rating system. Eggs are fun? Aren’t they?

We have received complaints from a few users about some people targeting certain users and throwing multiple rotten eggs every day. We are monitoring such behavior closely to minimize the abuse of the content rating system. We have also received requests from several users to extend the Golden Eggs system to reward people’s activity and contribution to the Minekey community.

We are glad to share with you that we will soon be launching the Minekey Activity Rewards System to incentivize users’ contribution to the community. More eggs for you! How do you like them? Fried, scrambled or boiled …

We have designed the system to ensure fair and equitable rewards for all user activity on Minekey. Further, we thought it is fair to give some credit for the user activity prior to launch to recognize prior contribution, while making sure that this doesn’t give an unfair advantage to some of the early users.

We hope this will make Minekeying a lot more fun and rewarding experience for all of you. Stay tuned for more details. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email us at community AT minekey DOT com.

Let’s start the New Year with some fun! If you haven’t had enough of eggnog this holiday season – don’t worry. Here is your opportunity to make up for it.

We have launched the Minekey Content rating system. As mentioned in our earlier posts, Content rating system provides greater control to Minekey users to have a say on what content they would like to promote on Minekey.

Here is how the content rating system works:

Minekey users will be allowed Eggs at opinions and comments on Minekey. If you like an opinion or comment, you can reward it by throwing a Golden Egg. If you dislike something you can throw a Rotten Egg - what can be meaner than that ?

To promote an opinion or comment, you can rate it up by clicking on the Golden Egg icon. To rate down an opinion or comment that you feel doesn’t belong there; you can rate it down by clicking on the Rotten Egg icon. Currently, we have kept the rating system anonymous, so users do not develop biases against the preferences of other users and feel comfortable and secure while rating the content.

In order to prevent abuse of the rating system, such as rating down content of specific users, we have restricted the number of eggs one can throw at the content of any specific user to a maximum of five per day. We will closely monitor the usage of the rating system and may consider allowing a higher number of eggs thrown at the content of any specific user. Further, we have restricted the users you have blocked from rating your content and you won’t be allowed to rate their content either.
We have also introduced “Top rated” tab on the opinion board and people board, to surface top rated opinions as well as people who have created top rated content. Users will be able to view top rated comments on the opinion pages by selecting “Top rated” filter.

We hope you’ll have some with the eggs and help surface quality opinions and comments on Minekey.
Some of you had requested us to increase the size of the explanation, so you can express yourself freely without watching out the character limit. We have increased the size of explanation on the opinion to 1500 characters on the website. We are hopeful this generous limit of 1500 characters would provide more flexibility for users to write articulate and compelling explanations for opinions that could include embedded content and clips from new stories and other media sites. Based on the response and adoption of this feature we may implement it on Minekey application on Facebook too.

This is just a beginning. We have lot more exciting features coming out in the next few months. Stay tuned!