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BayEstimator News/Updates |
May 06, 2008:
The tool now uses data from late April-early May 2008 for making suggestions.
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April 28, 2008:
Please note that stars and bars, as alternatives to the dots, will reduce the visual resolution of difference in keyword scores. The current dot-based scheme gives you twenty levels of resolution between -100% and +100%. A scheme with 5 stars or 5 bars will reduce that to ten levels.
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April 25, 2008:
The BayEstimator now employs some clever bit of skullduggery in an attempt to
retain as much punctuation as possible (apostrophe's, commas etc) in your
title while still allowing modifications as before.
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April 24, 2008
Many users are complaining about the "dots". Please realize that the
numbers/percentages are not coming back. However, if you can think of an
alternative which would be more usable than the "variable sized discs" :-)
, and doesn't involve numbers, please post in the comments section.
For example, "a stack of bars, with more bars meanining higher score" etc.
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April 22, 2008
BayEstimator no longer displays keyword suggestions until a search query is
chosen. Because the previous version automatically chose a default search query
to work with, it resulted in confusion for many users.
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Snippets on the Web |
April 29, 2008:
In response to Pierre Omidyar's comment: "... individuals, people, use their opportunities differently and if you can use that opportunity differently, and advance more, and find more service to customers, if your a seller, and so forth, then you should be rewarded for that."
User CrunchyPostingGoodness said:
True, but that isn't what eBay is doing. It is using the DSRs as a form of punishment - not incentive. If your stars fall to a certain rating, you can become restricted and/or suspended. If they drop, even as the result of scamming buyers, you will lose your Power Seller status and discount.
The psychology behind the reward system is that a person is rewarded only when they do something good. If they do not do something good, then nothing happens - not even punishment. For instance, a parent can reward their child for performing a chore by an allowance. If the child does the chore, then they get the money. If they don't do the chore, then they don't get the money. That is an example of the reward system.
What eBay is doing is a punishment system. The punishment system works on the principle that something bad will happen if you don't do something. For instance, a child will be grounded (if that is still the current phrase) if they don't do a chore. The difference between the two systems is that in one, the reward system, the status quo remains the same, and only offers the opportunity to improve. The other system, punishment, there is no status quo, only punishment for not achieve a goal. The punishment systems offers no opportunity for improvement - only survival.
[-User CrunchyPostingGoodness in response to Pierre's comments, on the eBayInk Blog]
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April 20, 2008:
When I search I want to see the items that are geographically the square root of my birthday cubed divided by pi.
[- Seller ecoseeds on the CA forums]
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