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!
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:
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I would like an answer on why I cannot post a comment on news items, why my percentage doesn’t change on Answers when I receive a best answer, and why I lost my “Top Contributor” tag. PLease respond.
I would like to know ,like many other users why I have lost my “Top Contributor” status ….Please respond
So what’s changed? All I can tell is that the voting limits have increased, but there’s content under fans and contacts too — it’s just that I don’t know what the former rules are.
The title of this post was “Changes to Fans, Contacts and Voting limits” but like much from Yahoo!, it is all about the positives and doesn’t tell you what you can’t do — what the changes are. It’s infuriating.
In setting the accounts to private Until the ‘requested contact’ replies to the ‘request to connect’ email; I have been blocked from my original MM profile, which was hacked and violated by a YA troll, thereby preventing me from viewing my own original account.
As I can no longer enter my original email / MM profile, I am unable to accept the request to allow me to see my original MM Q&A through my MM, M2 profile, in order to refer to my previous excellent Answers in new Answers as MM,M2. Am I making myself clear ?!
At least trolls can not see my Q&A, or can they ?!