Changes to Fans, Contacts and Voting limits
Many of you have voiced concerns about the misuse of the Fans and Contacts feature.
Firstly, we’re aware of how strongly many of you feel about this and we’ve heard and taken on board your feedback: we’re sorry we’ve taken so long to address a problem that may have affected your experience of Answers.
However, as of today, we are now making improvements to how Contacts and Fans work on Answers to ensure that your experience on the site is better.
In addition to Contacts and Fans we’ll make some changes to the voting limits. First of all… let’s cover Fans and Contacts:
What will my Fans see?
Anyone can become your fan by adding you as a `contact`. Once someone has added you as a contact:
- Fans will get latest updates when you ask questions in the `From my Network` tab
- Email notification when you ask a question
If you don’t want to allow fans at all – you can set this in your Preferences page.
If you don’t want a certain member to be aware of this information you can block them from the My Network page.
If your Q&A and Answers network are marked as `My Contacts Only` on your `Preferences` page, Fans will not gain access to view your content or your network.
Want to know when someone has become your fan? You can activate a notification in your profile page to receive an email when someone becomes your fan.
What will my Contacts see?
Contacts are those people you choose to add and you will be sharing your content with them.
Once you add a contact they will:
- See your questions and answers
- Get an update on the homepage in the `From my Network` tab when you ask a question
- Have visibility of your Answers Network
Everyone likes to receive the kudos of having new `Fans` of their content and this change will keep the overall control of `who-sees-what` with you.
Keep watching this space – this will be just the first step in changes we have planned for how Contacts and Fans should work and the benefits they bring as we continue to make this feature work for YOU.
Changes to voting limits
We’ve noticed that many you in the Answers community are very avid voters!
To help you continue to feed this passion we’ve now increased the daily limits for the number of votes you can cast. The new maximum daily are:
- Level 1: 25 votes per day
- Level 2: 50 votes per day
- Level 3: 75 votes per day
- Level 4: 100 votes per day
- Level 5: 125 votes per day
- Level 6: 150 votes per day
- Level 7: 200 votes per day
So what’s stopping you? Get voting!
– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers Team
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Thumbs up for Yahoo! This is an excellent new feature.
Dear Team,
I’ve been 3 and a half years on Answers and I thought I would never say this … very well done. With these changes you have finally shown that you are truly willing to listen to the users. Not before time, perhaps. But better late than never. The change to the fans feature has given us our right to decide how much access other users can have to our activities: this was what I wanted above all else. The massive improvements to the saved searches feature are also very welcome indeed. Now you are really getting your act together and delivering a responsive service, committed to improvement. So what can I say. Thank you very much indeed, and keep up the excellent work.
I still don’t think this resolves the issue of trolling. Contacts should be approved first, this is the only way to stop people making several accounts and trolling your into submission, unless they’re very ambitious and search every page for you.