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.

 

[Magnemite]

what happened to the reputation system?

It got replaced with "Reactions"

 

[Naid7]

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

No your count goes up, I said 'taco' got 8 disagrees and I went up

 

[Ac3dUd3]

1 step forward in some areas, 2 steps back in some areas. As ive said before, why not make a poll for new ideas for members to choose intstead of making all these changes without us knowing or having an input

 

[morganjp]

Rip Rocket. Killed himself working on that update last night.[DOUBLEPOST=1457872965][/DOUBLEPOST]

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

They will be recounted sometime today.

 

[Ajdin]

I personally think the disagree rating, oh sorry, disagree 'reaction' was a terrible move.

We're a marketplace forum, you'll see competitors asking friends to 'disagree' with a sales thread. You'll see a bunch of kids having 'disagree' wars just to make the other person look bad. Then you'll see a bunch of kids reporting eachother for abusing the reactions.

In my opinion the rating system shouldn't be touched at all. Any change you make on it will have a really big impact on how they see it, and if anything, they see the 'reaction' system more as reputation now as they're able to 'neg rep' someone.

 

[morganjp]

I personally think the disagree rating, oh sorry, disagree 'reaction' was a terrible move.

We're a marketplace forum, you'll see competitors asking friends to 'disagree' with a sales thread. You'll see a bunch of kids having 'disagree' wars just to make the other person look bad. Then you'll see a bunch of kids reporting eachother for abusing the reactions.

In my opinion the rating system shouldn't be touched at all. Any change you make on it will have a really big impact on how they see it, and if anything, they see the 'reaction' system more as reputation now as they're able to 'neg rep' someone.

I agree with the point that people would disagree on sales threads however I think that the trade rating system should return and the reactions only be enabled on the discussion forums.

 

[Dannyj]

I agree with the point that people would disagree on sales threads however I think that the trade rating system should return and the reactions only be enabled on the discussion forums.

That will fix a lot. But that disagree reaction should be only enabled in suggestion section I think.

 

[Mitchell]

I quite like the auto-response for premium

 

[Ivain]

Why is it called reactions . You can rate people funny. lmfao

it's called reactions in an attempt to remove the association that having a lot of 'ratings' makes someone more trustworthy.[DOUBLEPOST=1457874400][/DOUBLEPOST]

I personally think the disagree rating, oh sorry, disagree 'reaction' was a terrible move.

We're a marketplace forum, you'll see competitors asking friends to 'disagree' with a sales thread. You'll see a bunch of kids having 'disagree' wars just to make the other person look bad. Then you'll see a bunch of kids reporting eachother for abusing the reactions.

In my opinion the rating system shouldn't be touched at all. Any change you make on it will have a really big impact on how they see it, and if anything, they see the 'reaction' system more as reputation now as they're able to 'neg rep' someone.

I think the disagree rating has its uses, but only in places like suggestions and feedback, where they'll actually make sense.

 

[Ajdin]

it's called reactions in an attempt to remove the association that having a lot of 'ratings' makes someone more trustworthy.[DOUBLEPOST=1457874400][/DOUBLEPOST]
I think the disagree rating has its uses, but only in places like suggestions and feedback, where they'll actually make sense.

I never said "Oh, disagree is terrible to add anywhere."

I just said that this specific change was terrible in my opinion. I think it hasn't been thought out well, just like the reputation system.

I really have the feeling it'll be removed soon.

 

[Mitchell]

I think disagree is something nice to add people will stop abusing it in time. You can't say Abusing it cause it's just a rating after all.

Actually it is a reaction

 

[Ivain]

I never said "Oh, disagree is terrible to add anywhere."

I just said that this specific change was terrible in my opinion. I think it hasn't been thought out well, just like the reputation system.

I really have the feeling it'll be removed soon.

well, that may be true enough

 

[Sloth]

The disagree rating will probably be removed as its effectiveness has already been decided on posts. However it has allowed the players to show the administration how much we agree with this update. So many needed and recommended changes were added! The fun never ends here on Mc-Market.

 

[Shattered]

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.