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!

Category: Community, Minekey, content rating

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