We recently re-enabled anonymous voting on the site but did not assign any value to those votes. We have update the rules again and now anonymous votes are assigned value on a declining scale.
This means that the first anonymous vote has more value than the anonymous votes that follow it. Anonymous votes may help a […]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Anonymous Votes get a value again
18-Sep-06I am glad to report that most users on this site have now entered Google AdSense ID’s in their profiles and their stories are using this code to make them money. However, it has become clear over the last couple of weeks that the earnings are still quite mediocre.
In light of this, we have implemented […]
IndianPad on your Mobile
12-Sep-06We get a lot of requests from users who wish to view IndianPad on their mobile phones. The current front page looks beautiful on a computer screen but its pretty nasty on a cell phone.
So, we created a special version of our ‘front page’ for our mobile users. Type ‘http://www.indianpad.com/m’ on your mobile browser to […]
Who Voted for this Story?
12-Sep-06A new module has been added to the story page that displays the users who have voted for a specific story.
The section displays the name of 20 voters at a time and also includes the number of anonymous and negative votes.
Check it in action on this story.
Anonymous Voting Disabled
11-Sep-06There have been reports of users gaming the voting system at IndianPad - see story.
To counter this, we have disabled anonymous voting for the time being till we find a better solution. Also, stories will require 5 votes for the front page till this restriction is in place.
Check this story for alternate solutions and suggestions.
UPDATE […]
Re-factoring and New Features
02-Sep-06We have started the process of re-factoring all the underlying code for IndianPad. There will be some major modifications behind the scenes to beef up security and speed up the over-all site. The expected release date for this is the 3rd week of Sept.
One confirmed new feature will be the addition of a chatting engine. […]
Check for Duplicate URL is enhanced
01-Sep-06We currently don’t let users post duplicate stories with the same URL’s. The user was presented with a bland message informing them that a similar story had already been posted.
This message is now enhanced to provide the actual story that the user may be duplicating.
Click on the image below for the new layout…