The Great Featured Set/Home Page Dilemma (and how to move forward)
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@debraelizabeth Unfortunately the automated algorithm based set decider for the Homepage I believe is biased. Urstyle operates on a technological system of blockchaining I have read. All the members sets which reach the front page are based on members likes, comments and most importantly usage of Urstyle items for advertising which at the end of the day is the income for the business. On enquiring, I was told by Damian the only way at present you can prevent a set from reaching the Homepage is by publishing in any other format than public. The reason I asked this question is that I had seven sets in a row reach the Homepage one week and I did not think that was fair. I am sure I have not been the only member that this has happened to. Whatever the outcome is here, at the end of the day please remember the members sets are income to the business and in return the members get to be creative. That is why sets are advertised on Pinterest, Instagram and anywhere else Urstyle may feel inclined to do so as per the Terms of Service.
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@ollie I totally agree that the homepage is biased, mostly due to blockchaining. I believe it is the reason why few Art and interior design sets make it to the features page. I think members use of items for advertising carries a substantial preference and explains why certain type of sets constantly reach the features pages. With the use of cropping/png creating sites it may be difficult for interior designs to get on the features page and with art, the use of tubes and created pngs will also hinder it from making it. It's difficult to build likes and comments when others can't see your work. Just like Polyvore, Urstyle has a business format that has to make money. That business side is also something not all the users understand.
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I’m following this thread while considering another that was started recently: On-line Protection for Urstyle Members (https://urstyle.fashion/topic/2415114/on-line-protection-for-urstyle-members) and I’m wondering how you and others feel about a particular privacy issue.
When a Set is featured on UrStyle’s Home Page, regardless of how it’s selected, UrStyle features it on social media, which is fine. UrStyle relies on the revenue from sales that result from the graphic use of their sponsors’ products (items) in our Sets. Therefore, it is in UrStyle’s best interest to promote their members’ Sets while allowing non-members access to the “Items Used”. What concerns me is the access non-members have to our information (such as Profiles, Comments/Discussions on Sets, Descriptions of Sets).
Everything we write in our Set Descriptions, in Forums, and in Set Comments is visible to anyone and everyone online. How many of us have been sharing ourselves in our art, believing that what we publish is not visible to non-members? Perfectly natural expectation. We have a membership, so it must account for something… I mean, why sign up for a membership to a website if doing so doesn’t give you some kind of exclusivity?
UrStyle is, for those who develop and run it, a business. I think we can all respect that. I hope those running UrStyle can respect that for many of us, this website is an online art community, whether one’s art is fashion, interior design, or artistic creation. In addition to this, as a community it is a place to connect with others and to express ourselves - to other members, not to everyone on the world wide web. Until this subject was brought up in the aforementioned previous post, I hadn’t given much consideration to this, but the more I do, the more uncomfortable I feel. Because all of UrStyle is visible in all ways to non-members, those of us who want to choose what personal information we allow UrStyle and others to share should have the ability to do so.
Facebook is a perfect example of how this works. In order to see what a member has posted publicly; one must also be a member. One must log in after confirming their identity (to an extent) and then, if they wish to learn more (and see more) about a particular member, they have to send a Friend Request to that person, which the member can deny. If you Google the name of a Facebook user, you will get a list of people with the same (or similar names) or a link to the person’s Facebook page, that when clicked on, is covered by a screen telling you to log in to Facebook to see more. And again, once logged in, to get “full access” to someone’s info, THEY, not Facebook, must allow it.
Like Facebook, there needs to be a way for members to decide whether or not anything they’ve written on UrStyle should be visible to the general public (non-members) when a Set is published (and later re-posted/pinned/tweeted/etc.) That goes double for our blogs! I know anyone who REALLY wants access to particular information will find it some way or another but at least make it more difficult for those we do not wish to share ourselves with. Consider that many of us may not want employers (or potential employers) to see our Descriptions, or our children to read them, or our neighbors, etc.
A friend of mine has an abusive ex-husband who stalks her offline and online. She does not accept Facebook friend requests from anyone she doesn’t know personally. Now, couldn’t UrStyle do something like that here? Couldn’t our Set Pages be semi-private? Show the Sets and the Items Used to anyone, but to see descriptions and comments, one must be a member of UrStyle, logged in, and perhaps even someone who is allowed access by the User. Rather than having everything we’ve posted here wide open to be sent freely around the internet, when writing a Description, we could choose from options such as:
Make This Description Visible:
• To All UrStyle Members
• Only To People I FollowI hope UrStyle will seriously consider this. Yes, they do rely on revenue, but that revenue is reliant on their Users. We've been "exposing" ourselves willingly as per the User Agreement/Terms of Service, yet many have been under the impression that only other UrStyle members could see and read what one shares. Now that the issue has been brought up and I’ve given it more consideration, I feel uneasy about my words, not my art. Knowing that anyone can read my words makes me feel inhibited, which is counterproductive to this kind of website. Yes, anyone can sign up for UrStyle, which is part of this issue. Validating email addresses/identities, shouldn’t be too difficult for a company that can do all it does and provide all of the wonderful features it makes available to us. Then again, I could just keep quiet!
Thoughts?
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thanks for info
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after the last big site issues I figured admin wasn't even bothering to do site up keep anymore. I also didn't like the way Polyvore did their main page, I was never once on it, here I am, so I dunno I think having people pick will show their bias and they'll choose their buddies and stuff like that but that's my opinion.
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@funkyjunkygypsy I remember a thread like this previously. Apart from educating members, it went no where then and I doubt that it will go anywhere now, mainly due to it is Urstyle's form of free advertising and due to the fact admin just do not seem interested to protect it's members. One reason, I rarely put personal info in a comment. It would be great if we had the choice to be visible to outside this website or not. I guess it is a choice members make to use this website but the thing is how many know this when they sign up?
