Noticed those coloured bars that have popped up under forum posters' names and user profiles? That's your user rating.

It's a rating of how much you've contributed to the site and also how active you've been.
The more reviews, topics, articles and comments you post the higher your rating gets. The longer you've been a member the higher your rating too.

We see writing in leet and other forms of deliberate misspelling as a bad thing so you guess it, you loose rating for doing that. Writing in a lot of caps is also bad. Leaving nasty comments, less rating. You get the idea.

I'd just like to make it clear that as a new user you're going to have a very low rating until you start posting a bit. That's normal!
It's only updated once a week so it may take a few days for your rating to kick in.

A full explanation can be found here: http://haircrazy.info/Documents/how-are-users-rated/

We may tweak it as we see how it pans out.


Another improvement made over the weekend is the add your article form (http://haircrazy.info/article/add). I hope it's a bit less complicated and I've also added some illustrations of the layout of each type of article so you know where each thing you type is going to be displayed on the page.

Ooh looks interesting - looking forward to seeing it in action!

Nice idea! Got to fill up mine!

sounds like a good idea