I always voted for the individual photo - clarity, composition, the model, etc., but I thoroughly approve the removal of scoring. It's like a breath of fresh air. Good move! :)
Excellent decision. This is a great way of making this site more about appreciation and less about our (frankly irrelevant) opinions and holy wars based on them.
Seems reasonable! Ratings were always a matter of deciding whether to vote honestly or to try and game it to nudge it in your preferred direction, and the average ratings were too clustered around 8.5 - 9.5 for the scale to be that useful. The one suggestion I would make is that it would be nice if there were a "most favorited" option for a time scale between last week and all time, like either last month or year. (On a side note, I've never really seen the point of the "highest resolution" search; the only reason I can think of is for finding old magazine scans, but it seems like the "classic" tag would take care of that)
We've removed image ratings from the site. From now on, the number of favorites will be used to rank images against each other instead.
This means that instead of seeing "Most Highly Rated" on the front page, you'll now see "Most Favorited Today", which is a list of the images that have gotten the most new favorites in the past day. One of the benefits of Most Highly Rated on the front page was that the list would change from one day to the next as images on the list received a few scores of 0 and dropped off; we expect Most Favorited Today to do the same thing as images on it reach a saturation point in the number of favorites they receive and drop off the list. In addition, in the main gallery, you can see the best images (i.e., the ones that have gotten the most favorites) from the past week. You can also see the best (most favorited) images of all time, as before.
On user profile pages, there are two new metrics. One is "total favorites received", which correlates with the number of uploads the user has, and the other is "average favorites per upload", which gives the average number of favorites the user has received per uploaded image. This latter metric doesn't count images uploaded in the past day so as to not penalize uploaders for new images that haven't been favorited yet. You can also sort the memberlist by these metrics.
We expect the removal of ratings to have the following benefits:
No more disproportionate negative impact from "zero-bombers", who took advantage of the fact that most images had ratings of 8.5+ and so a vote of 0 would bring the average down more than a vote of 10 would bring it up.
Having both ratings and favorites was redundant. Often, people would favorite an image (indicating they liked it) but not leave a rating, or vice versa. There will now be one single metric we can use to measure how "liked" an image is.
Ratings were noisy. There were some users who seemed to give low or high ratings seemingly at random, which would combine with the disproportionate impact of 0 ratings to produce unwanted variability.
Favorites are more positive towards women who visit and see their pictures on the site. No one wants to see that they've been given low ratings. Ratings were supposed to be a grade for the images and their quality, but could at times feel like it was the women themselves who were being graded on a scale from 0 to 10, which is not the message we want to send.
Update: There is now a '+1' option under every image. This has the effect of increasing an image's score by 1 (just like adding to favorites) without actually adding it to your favorites list. This means you can vote on images without worrying about cluttering your favorites.
I've disabled signatures (that bit of text that appears at the bottom of all of your posts). It made it too easy for spambots to finagle their links into posts.
You won't be able to set a new signature, though your current signature hasn't automatically gotten deleted as of this post. I might, however, delete any signatures that I see while browsing around.
Recently, the forum has become somewhat cluttered with people overzealously posting links to their own sites. To solve this problem, I've split the former "Links" section into two forums, "Links" and "Your Site".
"Links" is now for posting cool things that you've found around the internet, such as Youtube videos, news articles, etc.
"Your Site" is for posting a link to a site that you own, or anything that you have a vested interest in linking to. If you post in that section, it has its own rules; make sure you read them first.
Also, to clarify any misunderstandings -- "Paysite Reviews" is (and always has been) for posting a review about someone else's paysite, not to plug your own site. (You can respond to a review someone else has posted of your site, though; just don't incessantly plug your site!)
Use it to post things that are not related to female muscle - including, for example, pictures of girls who aren't muscular (in fact, there's a thread in there just for that!)
-Ratings are now a series of radio buttons as opposed to a drop-down list, and the form auto-submits (if you have javascript enabled) when you click a rating. This should significantly reduce the number of clicks needed to rate an image :)
-Fixed a bug involving filtering images by tags on the main images page.
-At least 5 ratings are now required for a picture to be able to appear under "top rated" on the home page.
Good idea. You know they had to catch up with your site sooner or later. Now if you could only add an idiot filter, we'd be all set. Of course, such a thing would block about eighty percent of the comments, starting with mine. ;D
Haha.
-Removed the CAPTCHA for image comments for registered members. Members have to go through a CAPTCHA now to register anyway, so having them do one every time they leave a comment seems redundant. -Added extra protection (using cookies) to prevent people from rating an image more than once.
Added spam protection (a CAPTCHA) to registration and to the image comments, since apparently spambots have found the main site now too.
Good idea. You know they had to catch up with your site sooner or later. Now if you could only add an idiot filter, we'd be all set. Of course, such a thing would block about eighty percent of the comments, starting with mine. ;D
The image page now displays the number of times an image has been viewed. Also, if the girl/woman in the image is named, the name is now a link to a search of that name.
-Posting uploads is now handled a bit differently than before. With each update, not all the pictures in the queue are posted- rather, I select pictures from those that have been in the queue for the longest amount of time. As a result, don't be surprised if you upload pictures and they don't appear on the next update; chances are, they're still in the queue and I'll get to them in a few days. On the plus side, this should allow for more frequent (if smaller) updates.
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I just hope that the greater amount of favorites is for the really best photos, i.e which have better muscles.
We will have to wait a while to see if it works really well.
Now there is more place for additional tags such as crossfit, brazilian etc.
This means that instead of seeing "Most Highly Rated" on the front page, you'll now see "Most Favorited Today", which is a list of the images that have gotten the most new favorites in the past day. One of the benefits of Most Highly Rated on the front page was that the list would change from one day to the next as images on the list received a few scores of 0 and dropped off; we expect Most Favorited Today to do the same thing as images on it reach a saturation point in the number of favorites they receive and drop off the list. In addition, in the main gallery, you can see the best images (i.e., the ones that have gotten the most favorites) from the past week. You can also see the best (most favorited) images of all time, as before.
On user profile pages, there are two new metrics. One is "total favorites received", which correlates with the number of uploads the user has, and the other is "average favorites per upload", which gives the average number of favorites the user has received per uploaded image. This latter metric doesn't count images uploaded in the past day so as to not penalize uploaders for new images that haven't been favorited yet. You can also sort the memberlist by these metrics.
We expect the removal of ratings to have the following benefits:
Update: There is now a '+1' option under every image. This has the effect of increasing an image's score by 1 (just like adding to favorites) without actually adding it to your favorites list. This means you can vote on images without worrying about cluttering your favorites.
Now we can do some shameless plugs without feeling guilty
You won't be able to set a new signature, though your current signature hasn't automatically gotten deleted as of this post. I might, however, delete any signatures that I see while browsing around.
Thanks for understanding.
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"Links" is now for posting cool things that you've found around the internet, such as Youtube videos, news articles, etc.
"Your Site" is for posting a link to a site that you own, or anything that you have a vested interest in linking to. If you post in that section, it has its own rules; make sure you read them first.
Also, to clarify any misunderstandings -- "Paysite Reviews" is (and always has been) for posting a review about someone else's paysite, not to plug your own site. (You can respond to a review someone else has posted of your site, though; just don't incessantly plug your site!)
Thanks!
Use it to post things that are not related to female muscle - including, for example, pictures of girls who aren't muscular (in fact, there's a thread in there just for that!)
http://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/random/
Also added another row to the "top rated" category on the front page, so it now shows 12 pictures instead of 9.
-Fixed a bug involving filtering images by tags on the main images page.
-At least 5 ratings are now required for a picture to be able to appear under "top rated" on the home page.
Haha.
-Removed the CAPTCHA for image comments for registered members. Members have to go through a CAPTCHA now to register anyway, so having them do one every time they leave a comment seems redundant.
-Added extra protection (using cookies) to prevent people from rating an image more than once.
Good idea. You know they had to catch up with your site sooner or later. Now if you could only add an idiot filter, we'd be all set.
Of course, such a thing would block about eighty percent of the comments, starting with mine. ;D