Akkarin Posted February 12, 2017 Group: Forum Manager Topic Count: 282 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3144 Reputation: 1630 Joined: 03/26/12 Last Seen: April 15 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Over the course of this week I've turned my attention to the Paid Services section. A stagnant, undervalued area of the forums that has been the basis for concern throughout rAthena's history. To say this area has undergone an overhaul is an understatement. Third-Party Services The first thing on the list was to change the name to something more appropriate. Members offering their services are indeed third-party, so the name choice was a natural selection. Next, we needed somewhere to put the new service entries. Using a sub-forum for things like this was always a terrible idea, but never-mind. I created an IP.Pages databases to contain the services - this was the easy part. The hard part was making it all look snazzy. The default template files for IP.Pages are awful to say the least, so I based these templates off IPS's own version of this. It took the better part of a day to get it all looking cohesive in design, but it was well worth the time spent. The Service template itself also took some time to get right, but I think most of you will agree it looks pretty good! The "Available" and "Not available" status switches easily let other members know if a service is willing to take on more clients. This seemed to be a much better way of portraying availability than seeing "[unavailable]" in the topic title. The Available Services pills make it easier to search for third-parties offering a particular service, so the string of services at the top of the main page will filter out the services who don't offer what you're looking for. Th Contact Me button is a URL controlled by the service owner. It defaults to a link to PM them (providing they add their member id) but this could lead to various locations such as Facebook, their website, etc. The next thing i had to think hard about were public responses to these services. Paid Services were only supposed to have replies that contained a review, so I went with a review system: Users can select upto 5 stars (which show on the main service listing page) and can leave a comment. For now, these reviews must be approved by a moderator before the review content is visible. The last thing that needed working out were the guidelines for having a service listed. The old and rather stale Paid Services rules were.. unfair. After speaking with Aleos and getting some feedback from the Staff, I believe we've now got a firm method of approval! Point Scoring. Similar to how Maxmind determines a fraudulent transaction, we'll use this method to determine the outcome of a submitted service: Age of account [5] Less than 6 months, 1 point More than 6 months, 5 points Posts on forum [5] Less than 50 posts, 1 point Between 51 and 200 posts, 3 points More than 200 posts, 5 points Activity on github [10] Issue Reporting Reported 3 or fewer issues, 1 point Reported more than 3 issues, 5 points Pull Requests 2 or fewer merged PRs, 1 point More than 2 merged PRs, 5 points Uploaded Files [5] Less than 5, 1 point Equal to or more than 5, 5 points Previous warnings [5] No warnings, 5 points Maximum points available: 30, must reach 20 points to be approved. This matrix ensures that members who submit a service that are unable to contribute to the repos directly still have the opportunity to have their service listed. None of the currently approved Paid Services will be migrated automatically - everyone must go through the same process now. The old Paid Services section is now locked and will vanish next Sunday (19th Feb). When submitting, if your service is approved you should receive a forum notification (if you have them enabled), but if your service is not approved you'll receive a PM from myself giving you pointers on how to reach 20 points. A link has been placed into the "Community" drop-down in the main navigation bar. I look forward to this area becoming busy again! If you encounter any issues, please report them directly to me as soon as possible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos92 Posted February 16, 2017 Group: Members Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1826 Reputation: 288 Joined: 08/03/12 Last Seen: 6 hours ago Share Posted February 16, 2017 Hello ! How about signature and avatar ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akkarin Posted February 16, 2017 Group: Forum Manager Topic Count: 282 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3144 Reputation: 1630 Joined: 03/26/12 Last Seen: April 15 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 What about signature and avatar? I'm going to assume you mean links and advertising images - the rules on advertising haven't changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emistry Posted February 17, 2017 Group: Forum Moderator Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 10018 Reputation: 2369 Joined: 10/28/11 Last Seen: Sunday at 05:32 PM Share Posted February 17, 2017 https://rathena.org/board/forum/60-résumés/ perhaps this forum shall be locked and removed soon ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akkarin Posted February 19, 2017 Group: Forum Manager Topic Count: 282 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3144 Reputation: 1630 Joined: 03/26/12 Last Seen: April 15 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 The Employment section has now been removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshu Posted February 21, 2017 Group: Members Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 59 Reputation: 12 Joined: 01/12/12 Last Seen: November 28, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I think it's better to see who is really available or not and choose the good guy, I missed this topic before see the paid service was removed so i'm working on my points =D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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