Gundog Central Reload 06-28-17
- User Reviews
Before this update, you could only write reviews for kennels listed on the site, but now you can write a review for any person that advertises on the site. For free accounts, your reviews will be posted immediately, unfiltered, without review but these can only be posted by members of Gundog Central. Paid account members will have their reviews reviewed before I display them. It's currently not my policy to share one or two bad reviews for a subscribers, but could consider sharing them should I receive numerous bad reviews over a short period of time.
- Public Conversations
All new ads will now include a conversation tab that allows for a forum type public discussion involving your ad. Any questions or comments can be posted here for everyone to see. There is no review process or filtering in place. Only members with an active account can post to these discussion boards. If you have a paid account, you can delete any conversation you don't want displayed with your ad. If you don't want to allow these public conversation with your ads, you can disable this feature under your Account Privacy settings, just set conversations field to Do not Allow.
- Email Correspondence
I've rewritten a lot of the automatic email engine and all new email should include the IP Address and country of origin of the person trying to contact you. These emails will now include a warning message at the bottom informing you of a money order overpayment scams. Should you receive any suspicious emails from the site, please forward those to me for review, so I might block that individuals access and prevent other people from getting similar type messages. All new email correspondence will include a link back to Gundog Central that allows you to reply to your message online. It is not required that you do so, you can still reply directly to any email you receive. It was implemented to help prevent your messages from being tagged as spam. There is a new privacy option, as well, that allows you to require people to have a Gundog Central account before they can contact you, this is not turned on by default. If you're receiving spam from the site, this will help reduce the amount you get. If you wish to enable this feature, you'll need to log into your account, click on update privacy options and change the email field to Limit to people with Gundog Central account
- Pedigrees
We have A LOT of pedigrees in our database, however with no review process, a lot of them are incorrect or incomplete. To help combat some of this, you can now vote on the pedigrees to let us know which ones you think are correct. Ones with enough incorrect votes will be deleted from the system, while ones with higher correct votes will come up first in your search results. If you're placing a new classified ad and want to attach a pedigree, it's no longer going to be saved into the pedigree database by default. You'll still be able to fill out and display a three generation pedigree, it just wont be linked to the pedigree system. If you want to save your pedigree into the our pedigree database, to be used again at a later date, you'll need to pick "Create a new saved pedigree" from the Pedigree drop down when creating your ad.
- On Point Votes
I wasn't a fan of the five star voting system I implemented a while back, I thought it was to confusing and it wasn't really clear how to use it. It's now been replaced with a single small icon of an English Setter, with the number of votes it's received beside of it. It's basically just a way of saying you like their ad and think it's on point. In the future, I'll hope to use this system to reward ads with more votes with better ad placement.
- Featured Ads
I've been getting more request for featured ads and I tried to create a system that I thought was fair. Some people did not care of the way I implemented it, so I'm currently experimenting with featured ads to see what works best. If you have suggestions or thoughts, you can share them in the forums.
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Featured Breed of the Week : Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
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2 Posted Comments - Add your own comment
 | It's currently not my policy to share one or two bad reviews for a subscribers, but could consider sharing them should I receive numerous bad reviews over a short period of time. |
 | I know how they do. Ive had one person submit 4 or 5 bad reviews, under different names, because whatever deal they had in place, fell through. They dont realize that when they do this, that they also discredit themselves. I do look at all the reviews that come in, but they dont actually count in your score until I approve them. I wont approve a bad review, but I will keep it on file. I would never publish these unless there are just hundreds of them, but at that point I would probably just ban that person form the site. The whole review process was really just written as a way of letting people alert me and other people to any scammers or crooks that post to the site. |
