News and Updates (March 13, 2016)

[tjrgg]

Hello folks,

As you have probably noticed, we’ve made a few changes around here. The purpose of this announcement is to inform you of those changes.


The resources systems has been updated.
The Resources section has changed slightly. We recently fixed up the issue prevents members from adding prices to their resources. Premium and Supreme members can now add prices to their resources again. In addition, resource authors may now add terms and conditions that a member must accept when purchasing their resource.


We’ve added a TeamSpeak integration.
You may or may not have noticed this one. We have a brand new TeamSpeak server that is now integrated with MC-Market website. Members can now link their TeamSpeak identities to their MC-Market account to automatically be given access to the server. If you are an upgraded member, you’ll get access to the appropriate channels automatically as well.


New features added to conversations!
We all know you guys like new stuff. Who doesn’t like new stuff? This round, we’ve added a few features to conversations. We’ve even added a few things just for members who’ve upgraded to Premium and/or Supreme!

All members now have the ability to “Like” conversation messages. You can use this feature however you’d like with other members. You can use it in a group message to indicate you have seen the message or you can show appreciation for the message.

For Premium members, we’ve added these perks:

• The ability to set an auto-response message during a set time period; and
• The ability to kick members from a conversation you started;

For Supreme members, we’ve added the perks listed above, as well as these perks:

• The ability to set a prefix for your conversation;
• The ability to create filters so that you don’t receive conversations you don’t want; and
• The ability to create conversation participant groups.

Let us know what you think about these new awesome features that we’ve added to conversations. All in a day’s work!


Ratings are now reactions!
Ratings are going away. But don’t freak out! It’s not what you think. All that’s happening is they are being replacing with ‘reactions’. So, it’s going to be the same as before, just with a different name. That’s not so bad, right?

The reason behind this change is that this is exactly how we see the system. Those little icons on each post are ways that you can react to a post. It makes sense to say that you are reacting to a post and not necessarily rating it. When you press the “Funny” icon, you are reacting to the post, not rating it, right? Hence, the change to “reactions”.

With this change, we’ve added a “Disagree” reaction to the list. You should see this new icon everywhere you can react to a post.


Wiki is now a place for articles and tutorials!
We’re opening up the wiki! You read that right. We’re retiring the old “Member Tutorials” forum and moving tutorials and articles to the wiki. This is to allow other members to collaborate on these articles and tutorials and to provide valuable content and resources to our members.

Various articles and tutorials can be written in the wiki. As long as there is good quality content in the wiki, feel free to write about anything you think would be a valuable resource to other members on MC-Market.

Of course, we have established some rules relating to the wiki and it will be closely monitored. Wiki-related rules are listed in section 8 of the Community Guidelines.

Any member that has upgraded their account to Premium or Supreme may edit articles in the wiki. Only Supreme members may add an article to the wiki at this time. We may change this in the future.


Minecraft accounts are no longer allowed.
Most of you already know about this, but just to reiterate, we’ve recently updated the rules to disallow the sale of Minecraft accounts of any kind on MC-Market. This decision was reached based on the issues the sale of accounts has caused and the support from community members when we suggested it (http://www.mc-market.org/threads/81435/).

What this means is that you may not offer to buy, sell, trade, or giveaway a Minecraft account of any form on MC-Market. Doing so will result in punishment going forward. This became effective on March 2, 2016.

Just to clarify, we will not handle any scam reports concerning Minecraft accounts going forward.


Our team is always changing!
Since our last update, Coco, Doge and Jack have been promoted to Moderator and Myiume rejoined the team as a Resource Moderator. morganjp has also rejoined the team, but as a Chat Moderator.

Sadly, Ajdin decided to resign from the Administrator position. He will be missed. However, he’ll still be doing system administration work for us from time to time.


Just a few rule updates...
To accommodate some of the changes, we've modified the rules accordingly. We took the opportunity to update some existing rules as well.

The most important rule change to make note of are that advertising is no longer allowed in the chatbox. The chatbox may only be used for live conversation with other members, not for advertising your product or service. That should be done via a thread in the forums. Also noteworthy are the wiki rules, which will be modified as needed.


I think that about sums up all the changes up until today. If you have any questions about any of these changes, feel free to ask them in a reply to this thread and I will answer them as soon as I can.

That's all for now.

 

[Chearful]

It should be:

Reactions: POS / NEG / TOT (Pos-Neg)

 

[Chearful]

Might get sued for using the word Reactions!!

Good thing Mick'd be able to handle the lawyer fees.[DOUBLEPOST=1457869347][/DOUBLEPOST]

Yes, I have noticed the shitty changes to ratings.

 

[jurhe d]

this reactions thing is gay

inb4 10+ disagrees

 

[Ivain]

Just got 1 question. any premium member can edit articles? does that mean they can edit other people's articles as well, without their permission? that seems like it has lots of potential for failure.

 

[Naid7]

You can already see how many people are abusing disagree. I could literally say "taco" and get 10 disagree reactions ;-;

 

[ZenCraft]

This is bad update, I think you would have to remove

 

[MrAniman2]

Not sure about this whole reaction thing but 'disagree' button is nice addition as well as finally there will be no more advertisements in shoutbox each few min

 

[ZenCraft]

Not sure about this whole reaction thing but 'disagree' button is nice addition as well as finally there will be no more advertisements in shoutbox each few min

I think it's a way to express

 

[tjrgg]

You can already see how many people are abusing disagree. I could literally say "taco" and get 10 disagree reactions ;-;

At this point, they are just reactions. Nothing that really matter.

 

[Rypeo]

Fantastic, more pointless changes to MCM to cover up how useless this site is becoming.

Here's a suggestion for your next 'update'. How about you focus more on banning/punishing low quality members, who come here to shitpost, spam, post useless threads, flame, harass and impersonate other members, rather than banning high quality members who come here to use the site logically and to their full advantage.

All I can see from present updates is the mindset of staff being 'lets add cool stuff to MCM' rather than 'lets add beneficial features and handle rightful enforcement, in order to improve and expand the unique marketplace that we have'.

 

[Dannyj]

Thanks for this Nice update rocket!

 

[Dannyj]

Most kids are mad cuz of the ratings count... Disagree is abused already.

 

[Cian]

If you get a disagree reaction does your reactions go down...? I will probs get like 50 disagrees on this comment lol

 

[Dannyj]

If you get a disagree reaction does your reactions go down...? I will probs get like 50 disagrees on this comment lol

I think reactions aren't counterd. I don't see them on profiles.

 

[Magnemite]

Disagree ratings are going to be fun.. But seriously, most of this is useless. The only good thing is the no mc accounts.

 

[Matt D]

what happened to the reputation system?