Comments on: What’s the latest on Leaderboards?

By: 4ne-yo

4ne-yo — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:31:38 +0000

Leaderwho? who cares, there are more important things that needs fixing like fighting porverty and finding cures and stuff :p

By: Peter Horan

Peter Horan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:05:01 +0000

Yeah, as mentioned, the complete lack of moderation and the complete lack of customer service (i.e. your question/answer gets deleted because it offends someone or they don’t agree with it… there is no explanation of what terms of service you supposedly violated… you appeal it, and get back a form letter saying that you did indeed violate the terms, still not specifically saying anything about what you supposedly violated..) yeah, that would be your biggest problem here. Ermm glad you fixed the leaderboard though, yeah this place will really be great now (/sarcasm)

By: simon

simon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:56:41 +0000

Of course you haven’t done anything to fix the broken Community Moderation system. I think in your last blog more people were crying out for that to be fixed.

By: King Kjors

King Kjors — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:48:47 +0000

Booooooo.

My suspended account is no longer in 3 top tens now. You guys suck work on fixing the troll and cheat problem.

By: Oz

Oz — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:38:35 +0000

When I read this, I though “At last!!” but alas, I can’t see that anything has changed. I thought the category leaderboard were the ‘Top 10 Answerers’ on each category page.

If that’swhere the category leaderboards are displayed, the Travel-Australia categories haven’t changed at all and are still completely wrong.

Am I looking in the wrong place? Where are the category leaderboards?

By: Glen Warner

Glen Warner — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:10:49 +0000

As being the top leader in my category THANK YOU. Its great the leaderboard update now shows the time spent and hard work we do here on yahoo answers.To help people with there problems gives us a great sence of pride.Thanks yahoo answers for a great site and all your help keeping this a safe and fun place to help others.Best of luck to all the hard working people at yahoo answers for making this site the best on the web.

By: mandyj67

mandyj67 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:15:26 +0000

I don’t really see the point when questions and answers are arbitrarily given violations and removed for no other reason than spite. It’s just too easy for someone with 2 ID’s to follow people around, being petty and immature, making reports and then backing them up with their other ID. This leader board thing, while interesting only effects a really small %, the trolling is affecting everyone, and is v. annoying. It’s unpoliced, unsupervised, censorship in a nutshell. Getting a violation for nothing, and getting no explanation for it, it’s a bit KGB don’t you think? I think if you were to conduct a survey of your users you’d see that the spiteful reporting and resulting violations are the biggest gripe people have with this site.

By: ZER0 C00L

ZER0 C00L — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:39:09 +0000

What about the green outline around the users who are participating in the category in which they’ve made it onto the leaderboard? That was a feature a long time ago and then suddenly it disappeared.

By: Lyra

Lyra — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:31:29 +0000

I agree with those saying that your time shouldn’t be spent on LeaderBoards. It should be spent fixing the whole false reporting issue (I know a few people whose IDs have gotten suspended due to intentionally false reporting- this is a big issue), trolls, and better moderation. Among other things.

And Melvin, it’s not that they don’t care about the Leaderboards because they want to be there and aren’t. It’s that there are seriously other things that should be fixed before worrying about the accuracy of the point system, because the Leaderboards isn’t one of the more pressing issues here on Y!A.

By: ty

ty — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:56:35 +0000

its about time