[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Improvements And New Features...and Bugfixes Soon!

[John Freak]

Melon members! I have great news ...!

Some are new here, some are here for a while.. years... longer..! I m really glad that in the past years we have built up this community. We have some thousands of users every day and the community is growing daily. But with time (as you all noticed, i m sure) some websites features are not working as it should..

.... so I decided to reprogram the core code again.

Don't worry - all past votings, comments and photos, thousands of database entries we will keep and dont touch it!

So what are we working on?

- User login system
- User admin area
- Stats fixes / Rating fixes
- New picture categories

.. this all will take some weeks...

But in the meantime if you have any wishes or ideas what we can implement further, please comment in this thread.. or send me a PM. (PMs with your boobs are preferred!)

So let me know your wishes!!

I will keep you updated here in this thread.

[John Freak]

If I may put in my two cents . I believe the ratings should go no lower than 5 . That would help some of the down rating crap that goes on . If girls are brave enough to post pics of their gorgeous bodies on here they should be protected against haters or trolls .

I agree

Ok thx for your feedback... I will think about it.. so it means that the rating score will only be between 5 to 10, right? Does this makes sense? Just asking

[icandoit]

[Snoopy05]

Personally I think if you switch the ratings system from 1-10 to 5-10 all it will do is make 5 the new 1. If you really want to get rid of the down voting phenomenon that plagues every ratings site put in a ratings system that doesn't carry any negative meaning. Instead of a number system replace it with "I like this" "this is hot" "this is smoking hot". Then the melons are given 'scores' that range from "this is really liked" to "this is smoking hot".

None of those ratings give a negative feeling. :2cents:

Only going as low as 5 would lessen the effect a hater / troll can have on any individual score .

[icandoit]

Only going as low as 5 would lessen the effect a hater / troll can have on any individual score .

Then why not have it between 90 and 100 or grade A-F? Making the rating system gradated regardless of the values will still make it vulnerable to the effects of haters. 5 will just be the "people hate me" number instead of 1. There's no way around it when you have a low-high rating system. It is the unfortunate consequence of having a website called "ratemymelons". If you want to get rid of all the bad feelings associated with low ratings then do away with a graduated ratings system. That's why I suggested a different way to rate. Regardless of the outcome you're still "liked a lot". The only negative would be if your picture doesn't get enough votes to register a rating.