No more voting credits

Doug R. · Postby **Doug R.** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:12 pm

Did the Ultimate Game Directory stop giving points, or is something wrong? I've stopped accruing points for voting there, and it was the only one that gave points.

Debsy · Postby **Debsy** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:38 am

Yeah...I'm not getting points for any voting at all. And honestly, I think that if there's gonna be that many sites on there for voting, and we can only vote once per day, then we should get credits for each vote. Otherwise, why put them all up there, eh? Can we fix this please?

the_antisocial_hermit · Postby **the_antisocial_hermit** » Thu May 03, 2007 1:01 am

It hasn't been working since Sunday at least. I voted twice on Sunday and got no credits, and voted like 3 times on Monday and got no credits. I think I voted once yesterday to see if it was working yet on Tuesday, but still didn't get any.

Doug R. · Postby **Doug R.** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:09 am

3shyof30rats wrote:Yeah...I'm not getting points for any voting at all. And honestly, I think that if there's gonna be that many sites on there for voting, and we can only vote once per day, then we should get credits for each vote. Otherwise, why put them all up there, eh? Can we fix this please?

Well, there are two issues with the other sites listed. The first is that if the site doesn't provide any method of feedback to Cantr about which way you voted, there is no way for Cantr to know if you voted or not. The second is that if there is a way for the voting site to feedback to cantr, it is up to the cantr staff to set up the proper interface to allow it to do so. Ultimate games was originally created with this kind of feedback in mind, and as such makes it easy to do. I'm assuming the other sites either don't provide feedback, or make processing that feedback too time-consuming for the swamped ProgD to deal with.

Before you say that points should just be given for clicking the links to the voting sites, studies have shown that unless forced to actually vote, 80% of people won't and just collect free points.

I don't mind so much that only one site gives points (FYI, you can vote once per hour on Ultimate Games, not once per day), but I do mind that the only one that gave points suddenly isn't anymore.

Debsy · Postby **Debsy** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:29 am

That makes more sense...But even then, if those other sites don't give credits, why put them there in the first place?

the_antisocial_hermit · Postby **the_antisocial_hermit** » Thu May 03, 2007 4:15 am

3shyof30rats wrote:That makes more sense...But even then, if those other sites don't give credits, why put them there in the first place?

Because by voting, Cantr gets seen more by other potential players. The voting is about bringing in new people, not getting credits for saying it's a great game. We need new players because the player base, at least the English one, is declining badly.

And yea, I don't mind not getting credits for most of the links, but I hate things that don't work like they should.. so I hate that the link doesn't give the credit anymore.

SekoETC · Postby **SekoETC** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:52 am

I think one of the other sites also says that if you are given credits for voting, you must wait for the vote to be registered.

Solfius · Postby **Solfius** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:08 am

SekoETC wrote:I think one of the other sites also says that if you are given credits for voting, you must wait for the vote to be registered.

that one has been broken more often than working, the letter recognition test usally comes up with ERROR

Chris Johnson · Postby **Chris Johnson** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:36 am

Nothing has changed at the Cantr end - so the change in vote registration must be at the UGD end.

I will pass this on to Jos to look at

sammigurl61190 · Postby **sammigurl61190** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:56 am

The credits system is working again!

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