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Introducing Review Scores and the Karma System
Today we’re rolling out a new feature on moovee.me - something that we believe will radically improve your experience when it comes to reading reviews and finding nice people to follow. In this post we’ll explain how it works and why we think it is so cool!
WHAT ARE REVIEW SCORES?
Some reviews are more useful than others. That’s a fact, and the users of moovee.me want to be able to quickly find the best ones when deciding whether or not to watch a movie. In fact, that’s the most requested feature in our UserVoice Forum. Review Scores are our answer to that request. It’s very simple: everytime you read a review, you’ll be able to “judge” it by clicking a thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon. Doing that will increase (or decrease) that review’s score by 1 point - and you can guess the rest: reviews that get higher scores will appear first on a movie page, while the ones that have a weaker score will be pushed down on the list.
WHAT ABOUT THE KARMA SYSTEM?
If you’re an incredible writer and your reviews consistently score high, you’re probably a very good person to be followed. But how can other users learn about that without having to sift through a lot of movie pages thinking “hey, this guy’s reviews always get a good score”? That’s what the Karma System is about. Every time one of your reviews is “judged” by a user, you will get a little bit of positive or negative Karma. Other actions you take on the site can also have a positive or negative impact on your Karma - for example, helping us spot offensive reviews will earn you some points, while filing bogus reports may end up making you lose a few. Go ahead, play with the site and see how that impacts your rating! :)
You’re probably wondering why we chose the name “Karma” instead of simply calling it “User Score” or something like that. Well, the idea is that Karma is a PERMANENT thing. If you write a review and it gets a lot of love from other users, that will permanently add to your Karma, even if for some reason you choose to delete that review in the future. Also, if you edit a significant portion of your review, its score will be reset to zero - but any Karma you gained or lost in the “original” version of that review will not be forgotten.
HOW DOES KARMA AFFECT MY EXPERIENCE ON THE SITE?
If you have a very high Karma, you will have a much better chance of being one of our “Top Users” - this ranking used to only consider the number of reviews written by each user, but we’ve changed it so that it weighs in user Karma as well. Being a “Top User” is probably the best way to be recognized as a “movie expert” and to get more followers. Also, users with a VERY high Karma get other perks, such as a better chance of participating in the beta testing of new features on the site!
On the other hand, a low Karma will cause you to drop on the “Top Users” ranking - and a VERY low Karma can also cause your reviews not to appear in the Homepage timeline, for example. Be a good guy and you won’t have any trouble ;)
WRAPPING UP
We hope you enjoy these new features and take some time to experiment with them - and as usual, feel free to add your own ideas by clicking the “Feedback” tab on moovee.me!
