Hi there guys, your friendly neighborhood PLH here with an odd, backwards kind of request from you.
Now it has been alisema before that this spot is an excellent place in terms of mashabiki rating other user's content! I mean on the majority of picha wewe may be getting 10+ rates, most of the ikoni wewe might be finding 4 au 5 rates on each one, which is a lot aliyopewa how many of them there are!! Even most of the screencaps have been rated, which even my rater whore self wouldn't be able to do! So yes, this spot is an excellent place for your content to be rated! So wewe may be asking why i am making a foramu on this but I do have one, strange, issue with the rating on this spot:
I think that in general we rate things too high!! Quite often when I get to the pictures (icons au whatever) I find that they are all rated 5 stars, au 'awesome' as fanpop classifies it. Now this can be interpreted in a few ways:
1) The mashabiki here are very very very very very nice!! But we knew that anyways!!
2) People aren't looking at each individual thing they rate, just rating.
3) There is nothing wrong with this, all the content here is awesome!
4) We have a minor problem...
And the last option is the one I am going to explain for wewe here.
The point of rating on this website is so that mashabiki can differentiate between content, as judged kwa other fans. This way, wewe could easily see the better ikoni in a huge bunch of them because they would have a higher rating. However when they are all rated 5s wewe can't do that, and it makes rating pointless apart from helping other mashabiki getting medali (which isn't even necessarily true...).
So what I am recommending is this:
What we seem to be doing now is rating everything we come across with a five, but how about we tone this down a little? Make your default rate a 4, which is still classified as 'great' kwa the rating system. This way will allow us to see the difference between the usual content we see added constantly every day, and the content that really shines out and deserves special attention.
Also, rating everything as a 5 constantly means that when wewe see something wewe really really really like, there is no way of inaonyesha that unless wewe comment, but that doesn't help new other mashabiki find it! kwa rating everything a 4 wewe can highlight the awesome content hidden in all the great stuff!!
Some other points I want to bring up on rating in general:
1) wewe should never rate something low because of your opinions on the character/ship! This is another form of bashing, and really not cool people! If it a good article/picture/etc then it deserves a good rating, regardless of whether wewe agree with it au not!!
2) Please do always rate. It is so frustrating to see a picture with 100 au so maoni and only a couple of rates! link wrote an excellent link on this a couple of days ago.
3) Don't rate low just for the sake of it! This is called trolling, and it very frustrating! If someone has put a lot of effort into something, au even a little, it deserved to be recognised! Don't go round rating 1s and 2s for the sake of it!
4) This is zaidi aboot adding content, but wewe should always try to use maneno muhimu (my test for what makes for good use of maneno muhimu is "if I was looking for this would I be able to find it quickly?"). Also, crediting is very important!! If wewe are adding something to fanpop but didn't make/write it yourself, then the person who did deserves the credit! Now if wewe don't know who to credit, wewe could just fill the box with "I don't know" au "I am unsure", au something along those lines!
5) Along similar lines, when wewe come across an image/article/link with poor keywording and credit, try not to give it 5 stars, regardless of how good it is. in my mind something only deserves 5 stars if it has the whole package. And to be honest, is it really [i]that[i/] hard to add a few maneno muhimu to the things wewe add??
Ok, I know that article/rant was kind of long and boring,but thank wewe guys for reading, means a lot to me!! My main point I'm trying to get across is...
Now it has been alisema before that this spot is an excellent place in terms of mashabiki rating other user's content! I mean on the majority of picha wewe may be getting 10+ rates, most of the ikoni wewe might be finding 4 au 5 rates on each one, which is a lot aliyopewa how many of them there are!! Even most of the screencaps have been rated, which even my rater whore self wouldn't be able to do! So yes, this spot is an excellent place for your content to be rated! So wewe may be asking why i am making a foramu on this but I do have one, strange, issue with the rating on this spot:
I think that in general we rate things too high!! Quite often when I get to the pictures (icons au whatever) I find that they are all rated 5 stars, au 'awesome' as fanpop classifies it. Now this can be interpreted in a few ways:
1) The mashabiki here are very very very very very nice!! But we knew that anyways!!
2) People aren't looking at each individual thing they rate, just rating.
3) There is nothing wrong with this, all the content here is awesome!
4) We have a minor problem...
And the last option is the one I am going to explain for wewe here.
The point of rating on this website is so that mashabiki can differentiate between content, as judged kwa other fans. This way, wewe could easily see the better ikoni in a huge bunch of them because they would have a higher rating. However when they are all rated 5s wewe can't do that, and it makes rating pointless apart from helping other mashabiki getting medali (which isn't even necessarily true...).
So what I am recommending is this:
What we seem to be doing now is rating everything we come across with a five, but how about we tone this down a little? Make your default rate a 4, which is still classified as 'great' kwa the rating system. This way will allow us to see the difference between the usual content we see added constantly every day, and the content that really shines out and deserves special attention.
Also, rating everything as a 5 constantly means that when wewe see something wewe really really really like, there is no way of inaonyesha that unless wewe comment, but that doesn't help new other mashabiki find it! kwa rating everything a 4 wewe can highlight the awesome content hidden in all the great stuff!!
Some other points I want to bring up on rating in general:
1) wewe should never rate something low because of your opinions on the character/ship! This is another form of bashing, and really not cool people! If it a good article/picture/etc then it deserves a good rating, regardless of whether wewe agree with it au not!!
2) Please do always rate. It is so frustrating to see a picture with 100 au so maoni and only a couple of rates! link wrote an excellent link on this a couple of days ago.
3) Don't rate low just for the sake of it! This is called trolling, and it very frustrating! If someone has put a lot of effort into something, au even a little, it deserved to be recognised! Don't go round rating 1s and 2s for the sake of it!
4) This is zaidi aboot adding content, but wewe should always try to use maneno muhimu (my test for what makes for good use of maneno muhimu is "if I was looking for this would I be able to find it quickly?"). Also, crediting is very important!! If wewe are adding something to fanpop but didn't make/write it yourself, then the person who did deserves the credit! Now if wewe don't know who to credit, wewe could just fill the box with "I don't know" au "I am unsure", au something along those lines!
5) Along similar lines, when wewe come across an image/article/link with poor keywording and credit, try not to give it 5 stars, regardless of how good it is. in my mind something only deserves 5 stars if it has the whole package. And to be honest, is it really [i]that[i/] hard to add a few maneno muhimu to the things wewe add??
Ok, I know that article/rant was kind of long and boring,but thank wewe guys for reading, means a lot to me!! My main point I'm trying to get across is...