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Henry Osadzinski
- Original Poster
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Hi everyone,
We've been hard at work to add features and improve the quality of the experience on UKBF and are happy to be able to show you some of the progress we've made
First off, in response to queries and feedback, we've pulled all of the information regarding moderation together, updated it to make it as clear and straightforward as possible and collected it all in one place. This is all accessible via the main rules link as well, so it's on hand if you ever need it.
Next, following suggestions and discussion from users and mods, we've enabled Visitor Messaging. This is a new feature to UKBF that allows members to post comments, feedback, reviews and testimony on contacts' profile pages. Through this, it's easier to share recommendations of people you have worked with via the forum and show real connections in a more detailed way than the "Friends" feature. There are a few things you need to know about using Visitor Messages, so we've added a section to the Resources & FAQs sticky to help you get started. If you don't want to use the feature or want to limit it to trusted contacts, you can also opt out via the options under your My UKBF tab.
Finally, we want to open up discussion around the subject of promotional and networking posts on UKBF. We feel that there's room for improvement here and we want to make positive changes to help people talk about their business and build working connections with others without worrying about being considered spamming unnecessarily.
With this in mind, we're suggesting that we relax the rules regarding self-promotion and linking to your own business / products. We know that being able to network is important to nearly everyone on UKBF and the more we can do to make that easier whilst also encouraging the best possible advice and content, the better. With any more open system comes the risk that it'll be abused, especially by posters who sign up to drop links and generally spam, which we still won't tolerate.
To make it easier to spot and remove spammers and discourage simply signing up to drop links, the balance we want to propose is increasing the post limit from 15 to 30 before a member can include live links in their posts. This makes quick post runs easier to spot and gives more time for new members to focus on joining in on conversations and getting involved with the community before taking advantage of the ability to directly promote their business. With this in mind it would allow us to remove restrictions on linking to your business in relevant situations, making it easier to build working relationships with others. Starting threads purely to promote outside of the Marketplace still wouldn't be allowed, nor would posting "junk" or off-topic promotion, but these are much clearer and easier to both avoid and moderate. This is something we want to continue to work on with members so please do remember to always report content you feel is inappropriate so that the team can take care of it as quickly as possible.
We're keen to get as much feedback from the community as possible. If you have any comments or questions, do let us know. If this sounds good to you, a quick click of the Thanks button will help to give us an idea.
Thanks!
We've been hard at work to add features and improve the quality of the experience on UKBF and are happy to be able to show you some of the progress we've made
First off, in response to queries and feedback, we've pulled all of the information regarding moderation together, updated it to make it as clear and straightforward as possible and collected it all in one place. This is all accessible via the main rules link as well, so it's on hand if you ever need it.
Next, following suggestions and discussion from users and mods, we've enabled Visitor Messaging. This is a new feature to UKBF that allows members to post comments, feedback, reviews and testimony on contacts' profile pages. Through this, it's easier to share recommendations of people you have worked with via the forum and show real connections in a more detailed way than the "Friends" feature. There are a few things you need to know about using Visitor Messages, so we've added a section to the Resources & FAQs sticky to help you get started. If you don't want to use the feature or want to limit it to trusted contacts, you can also opt out via the options under your My UKBF tab.
Finally, we want to open up discussion around the subject of promotional and networking posts on UKBF. We feel that there's room for improvement here and we want to make positive changes to help people talk about their business and build working connections with others without worrying about being considered spamming unnecessarily.
With this in mind, we're suggesting that we relax the rules regarding self-promotion and linking to your own business / products. We know that being able to network is important to nearly everyone on UKBF and the more we can do to make that easier whilst also encouraging the best possible advice and content, the better. With any more open system comes the risk that it'll be abused, especially by posters who sign up to drop links and generally spam, which we still won't tolerate.
To make it easier to spot and remove spammers and discourage simply signing up to drop links, the balance we want to propose is increasing the post limit from 15 to 30 before a member can include live links in their posts. This makes quick post runs easier to spot and gives more time for new members to focus on joining in on conversations and getting involved with the community before taking advantage of the ability to directly promote their business. With this in mind it would allow us to remove restrictions on linking to your business in relevant situations, making it easier to build working relationships with others. Starting threads purely to promote outside of the Marketplace still wouldn't be allowed, nor would posting "junk" or off-topic promotion, but these are much clearer and easier to both avoid and moderate. This is something we want to continue to work on with members so please do remember to always report content you feel is inappropriate so that the team can take care of it as quickly as possible.
We're keen to get as much feedback from the community as possible. If you have any comments or questions, do let us know. If this sounds good to you, a quick click of the Thanks button will help to give us an idea.
Thanks!
