You Can Now Disable Legitimacy Voting on your Characters
Posted: July 3rd, 2013, 4:39 am
Hello everyone,
It has come to our attention that some members have become frustrated by the fact that some of their characters have been receiving a high volume of "No" votes via our Legitimacy Ratings system. It seems that some characters that have high stats, despite their authors' assertions of their legitimacy, have been marked as illegitimate by the community for receiving too many negative votes. This has understandably caused these characters' authors to become quite upset at what they deem an unjust abuse of the system by anonymous voters who are not even required to specify a reason as to why they choose to downvote other characters.
To ensure that everyone enjoys their experience to the fullest on The Elder Stats, we are now allowing character authors to disable the Legitimacy voting system for any of their characters, if they wish to do so. To disable Legitimacy voting on your character, go to your character's profile, click the "Edit Profile" button, and on the left side of the page you will see an "Additional Settings" area. Find the setting labeled "Allow 'Legit' Voting" and set it to No, then save the changes. This will disable the Legitimacy voting system for your character so that abuse of the system by voters can no longer affect the perception of your character. Please only disable the Legitimacy voting system on your character if the system is being abused by voters.
However, we must remember why this Legitimacy Ratings system was implemented in the first place — to allow the community a simple way to ensure that the Leaderboards remain free of characters who have stacked their profiles with illegitimate stats. With this in mind, we have therefore decided to completely remove any characters from the Leaderboards who have had Legitimacy voting turned off on their profiles. If you choose to disable the Legitimacy voting system for any of your characters, please note that those characters will be automatically removed from the Leaderboards as long as voting is disabled on their profiles. This must be done to ensure that the Leaderboards remain fair and competitive.
Thanks for reading, and we hope that this change to the system will ease the frustrations of some of our members who have found it to be unfair in the past.
It has come to our attention that some members have become frustrated by the fact that some of their characters have been receiving a high volume of "No" votes via our Legitimacy Ratings system. It seems that some characters that have high stats, despite their authors' assertions of their legitimacy, have been marked as illegitimate by the community for receiving too many negative votes. This has understandably caused these characters' authors to become quite upset at what they deem an unjust abuse of the system by anonymous voters who are not even required to specify a reason as to why they choose to downvote other characters.
To ensure that everyone enjoys their experience to the fullest on The Elder Stats, we are now allowing character authors to disable the Legitimacy voting system for any of their characters, if they wish to do so. To disable Legitimacy voting on your character, go to your character's profile, click the "Edit Profile" button, and on the left side of the page you will see an "Additional Settings" area. Find the setting labeled "Allow 'Legit' Voting" and set it to No, then save the changes. This will disable the Legitimacy voting system for your character so that abuse of the system by voters can no longer affect the perception of your character. Please only disable the Legitimacy voting system on your character if the system is being abused by voters.
However, we must remember why this Legitimacy Ratings system was implemented in the first place — to allow the community a simple way to ensure that the Leaderboards remain free of characters who have stacked their profiles with illegitimate stats. With this in mind, we have therefore decided to completely remove any characters from the Leaderboards who have had Legitimacy voting turned off on their profiles. If you choose to disable the Legitimacy voting system for any of your characters, please note that those characters will be automatically removed from the Leaderboards as long as voting is disabled on their profiles. This must be done to ensure that the Leaderboards remain fair and competitive.
Thanks for reading, and we hope that this change to the system will ease the frustrations of some of our members who have found it to be unfair in the past.