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Ratings System Upgrade

We take pride in our ratings system.  It gives our users the power to promote or demote models easily with the single click of the mouse.

Recently, we’ve noticed some oddities with our ratings system.  While we want to maintain the openness of our ratings system, we also have to make sure that unscrupulous users do not use programs to take advantage of that openness.

That being said, we can’t go into the details too much for security reasons, but there have been a few small restrictions placed on how ratings work.  The main one being how many ratings a profile is allowed in a given period of time.  While we like and even encourage members to rate themselves and have their friends rate them, we have to balance that with members trying to abuse that ability.  There are certain patterns that emerge from bots and programs abusing the ratings system and those patterns are not seen in user-generated human ratings.

Only a very small percentage of members will see any difference in the ratings.  And please rest assured that the ratings are still open and there will never be a time when any visitor to the site cannot rate whomever he or she pleases.

CAPTCHA Now In Place

We’ve started seeing more bots trying to get sign up. As a result, we’ve been forced to implement an easy CAPTCHA program to thwart bots’ attempts to post fake information. You may notice on the Create Profile and Create Agency page a small image with letters in it.

We’ve never liked having to use images to do this. It seems as if it’s always impossible to read them. We did our best to make it fairly easy to read, yet hopefully hard enough for the bots to. Hopefully everyone can understand why we had to do this.

Blog Online

We were looking for a way to keep users updated with changes and enhancements to the site, and this is what we came up with. Whenever functionality is added, changed, or removed, we will put a post here explaining what changed and why.

Check back often to keep track of the changes.

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