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Categorizing and rating

by Tara miilu on September 28, 2011

Let me start of by saying that I love Fanbox! It is the perfect place to have the freedom to express your thoughts,feelings or just bitch about a crappy day! With that being said Fanbox is going through some changes some good and some bad. These are just my thoughts and feelings of what works and what doesnt work for me personally. I realize that with every major change there are bound to be some flaws in the system. The biggest issue I have the present day is with the categorizing and rating of people's blogs. More so with the rating part of it. Now at first glance I realize this sounds awesome and to a certain extent I guess it is. But the writer in me totally disagrees with this kind of option because I feel it does a great disservice to the site and writer themselves reason being it makes you wonder who are your real fans and who are the

27 Comments

Good morning. The C&R is set up for people to tell what a post is about *not* their opinions about a post. So if someone isn't reading the post, the algorithms already have a very good idea what the post is about and if someone isn't categorizing and rating accurately - the system will punish them by disregarding their opinions on the post and if it continues - completely so they are just basically C&R'ing themselves out of the system.

20 months ago

It's before coffee, I meant to add - I really liked this post!

20 months ago

JoLynn explained the C&R rather well. I do agree that it's not nice for people to try to get away with just categorizing and rating without actually reading a blog. It's really rather hurtful emotionally to the author if a writer writes about a very sensitive issue and how she was hurt by something that happened in her life, then to read someone comment with a single word, "nice". I understand where you are coming from, Tara. Good job in expression here, and I do understand your frustration.

20 months ago

thanks for all your wonderful comments i appreciate each and everyone of them. Do you have any suggestions on what you think needs fixing?

20 months ago

* NICE*.... lol just kidding hun!!!!!! i see where you are coming from with this blog.

20 months ago

Thank Ronnie

20 months ago

Very good post. Nice content.

19 months ago

thank you Borhan!

19 months ago

Thank You Ghazal.

18 months ago

I much prefer to see valuable comments on my blog entries as well, lets me know the person read my work, understood it and took the time to make a valuable comment. I even help a couple of other bloggers by helping point out improper word usage, spelling, and grammar, and they do the same for me.
Here's to weeding out the fakers!

18 months ago

Thanks for commenting Karl I love reading your posts you do a very excellent job ! keep up the good work! and I agree let's all help each other by making valuable comments on each others posts. So that we can all improve on things little by little everyday!

18 months ago

Nice Post Thanks for Sharing.

18 months ago

nice

14 months ago

all people must C & R after reading the post!
for example i think this post is about "categorizing and rating issue" after reading this post and rate it!

12 months ago

v nice ....!!

6 months ago

i love this post.

5 months ago

Good ! Thank you for sharing.

4 months ago

Hi Tara, a fellow author here. I hear what you are saying and I agree. I am new here but I have been wondering about some of the things that you brought out. I have seen it happen in other sites where you post something and some post the nice post, or thanks for sharing type reply. I felt right away they had not read what I had written. Sorry to critique you, and maybe I am wrong, but the word motive in the last paragraph should be motivate. At least that is how I would have worded it. You can critique me any time too. It was a great post full of deep feelings. Thanks.

4 months ago

yeah rating a post without reading i guess is unappropriate. but maybe because of how the rating system works the give and take thingy may be the reason some people do it, sorry for bad english

3 months ago

Thank you for posting this information. Cleared some things up for me.

2 months ago

Thank you so much, I really think this post made me see things so much clearer, and hopefully explained how to be better at giving it a label, rating , & and a score that is more acceptable to the person writing the post!

2 months ago

thanks for sharing your nice thoughts of categorizing and rating post.

2 months ago

it's really helpful to us as a new member
we can get some ideas on how to use or what is fanbox all about........God bless

2 months ago