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.

 

[Sloth]

Everyone who is frowning on the Minecraft accounts being gone, I think that is a good thing.
Almost everyone was getting scammed over an account and that is because people can use a TID to get it back, and it is really hard to prove ownership of it. Minecraft accounts didn't really sell for much money.

I would change reactions to positive reactions, as it should only count the positive reactions and it will be used as a reputation system here on the market.

Not all accounts got taken back with a TID. If you dealt safely in the account market you were fine. Accounts also got sold for a lot of money. Accounts with capes led into the $300 mark. The problem with the removal of the accounts section is that people who had nothing to do with selling accounts voted against it. They shouldn't have been involved in the poll if they have no idea what they are voting for. It should have gone though, there's no point in selling when the account will just get locked.

 

[ajthemacboy]

I'm not clear on some things. I believe I was almost at 100 "ratings" yesterday and now I'm lower.

I know these changes will probably be reverted soon, but why do I have less "Reactions" than ratings?

 

[Sloth]

Funny ratings lower it and they are doing a recount of reactions.. seems they messed up somehow

Yeah they messed up by releasing this update.

 

[ajthemacboy]

Funny ratings lower it and they are doing a recount of reactions.. seems they messed up somehow

I thought the entire point of this was to make funny ratings not necessarily a bad thing. If someone makes a joke and I rate it funny, why would that lower my "Reactions" count, which is a nice way to perceive someone's reputation?

 

[cityseis]

You say you're replacing rating with reaction?

Then I am going to react to a post with winner, creative, optimistic, useful, intersting, informative? These are ratings, not reactions. You should put it back to rating.
Also I disagree with disagree, it was removed for a good reason

Nice update, really nice to see how far this site has come.

 

[Sloth]

That promise about 2016 being the best time for Mc-Market ever is really working out xD

 

[LoligKuujaaik]

I loved Rating More then "Reactions"

Well, this is my opinion.

 

[Magnemite]

You can see the community loves the update.

 

[Magnemite]

Most people are clicking disagree just because we can. I like the update and i still clicked disagree because i like using new ratings .

Which is why we should get rid of the disagree rating.

 

[LoligKuujaaik]

Most people are clicking disagree just because we can. I like the update and i still clicked disagree because i like using new ratings .

I disagreed because I didn't Like the Update

Again, This is my opinion

 

[LoligKuujaaik]

Yeah could do that but why? So we can go back to normal ratings and eventually try another "rep" system and once again the community will dislike it and be changed back.

I'd prefer to stick with this and maybe just have fixes or edits to it until people feel it is working. Not giving up instantly and going back to the old.

WHY CHANGE WHEN EVERYTHING WAS GOOD ;-;

Again, This is my opinion.

 

[ajthemacboy]

Why do we have to have these frequent changes anyway? A lot of the things in this update are actually good, but these updates are far too frequent in my opinion. MCM is fine the way it is without weekly updates.

Also, if you are going to make significant changes like this, please think them through before doing so... this seems like a rushed and improvised solution, just like the "Review" system that was added recently and then reverted.