Its good people actually care about the snark marks. They should be effective in spurring participation.

These last few post gave me an idea. See the suggestion thread...

larchy said:
Yeah... we chopped and changed the ratings system a few times, and looks like there are still some gremlins. Have made some more fixes! Hopefully, fingers crossed, everything is ok now and you should have 51 snarkmarks which is what your profile is showing as I post.

Allright it's fixed now. Thanks!

Yeah... we chopped and changed the ratings system a few times, and looks like there are still some gremlins. Have made some more fixes! Hopefully, fingers crossed, everything is ok now and you should have 51 snarkmarks which is what your profile is showing as I post.

larchy said:
Niborius - the issue is now fixed, but your snarkmarks will still show 19 until you visit control panel > snarkmarks, as visiting this page recalculates your profile's snarkmark total.

Thank you for fixing it, but even when i go to the control panel and click "snarkmarks", i still have only 19. And that's a shame because i had way more than that

I've restored the original non-ajax map upload form for the time being, since the new version doesn't seem to be working in anything other than firefox.

aaron_da_killa said:
I know whats happening now, its deducting your snarkmarks because your getting "low" map scores.

This is not actually the case. Snarkmarks are never deducted - this was discussed during the beta and it was decided the possibility of people having negative snarkmarks was a bit silly

I had made a mistake that meant a certain value was not updating correctly when something was rated, and this value affected the multiplier when your snarkmarks were being calculated.

Niborius - the issue is now fixed, but your snarkmarks will still show 19 until you visit control panel > snarkmarks, as visiting this page recalculates your profile's snarkmark total.

I've also found the issue with the 'validation failed' error when you upload a map using IE8 - I'll work on getting it fixed this afternoon... it's a problem with the new upload progress scripts not running properly on IE (IE7 doesn't work at all)... probably a DOM issue somewhere.

Niborius said:
Ok, so internet explorer 8 is really NOT working well with the snarkpit, so i just downloaded firefox and it seems fine now.

anyways, i found this very weird bug about the snarkmarks.
I made a map, and Riven rated it 3 stars. Then i had 70 snarkmarks.
Then i went to the forums a bit and suddenly i had 41 snarkmarks.
Right now, when 2 more people rated my map, i have something like 19.

I know whats happening now, its deducting your snarkmarks because your getting "low" map scores.

Two things about that larchy:

1) I don't think snark marks should be deducted for having a "low rating", perhaps we could give them like 20 or something for submitting a map, then additional marks depending on what their map gets, and it should be based off the average maps rating not quantity of ratings, if a map has a score of 3/5 and another person rates it 3/5, the marks should then not change.
2) 3/5 is very much so a positive score, so marks shouldn't be taken away.

larchy said:
Go to control panel > snarkmarks and see what it says m8 (should be a breakdown)

It doesn't say anything except for this:

You have 19 snarkmarks!

none from articles
none from downloads
18 from maps
1 from forum posts
none from correctly answered questions

Go to control panel > snarkmarks and see what it says m8 (should be a breakdown)

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Thanks for posting those errors Muhnay

Very weird... those are server side errors and shouldn't have anything to do with the browser :/ Confused.

I just dl'ed opera earlier and tried it and everything was fine... logged in, posted using it etc.

hmmm :/

Ok, so internet explorer 8 is really NOT working well with the snarkpit, so i just downloaded firefox and it seems fine now.

anyways, i found this very weird bug about the snarkmarks.
I made a map, and Riven rated it 3 stars. Then i had 70 snarkmarks.
Then i went to the forums a bit and suddenly i had 41 snarkmarks.
Right now, when 2 more people rated my map, i have something like 19.