Wednesday, September 13, 2006
TALON Upgrade.
After a night of heated
debate between site director C. A. Passinault, some models, and Shane, the
format for the TALON Database has been upgraded. We will now add a reference
history to each profile with links to the party/ contact who made the reference,
along with the exact statement made by them (this was Shane's idea, and it
was a good one). References will not be adjusted unless the source can be
verified, and if the source can be disproved or their identity questioned
at any time, their reference and the impact to the rating will be adjusted.
Anonymous posts will not be allowed, and any statements made by a party will
quote their opinion or fact (we do not recommend posting allegations unless
you have proof to back up those statements; anything potentially or obviously
libelous will not be posted, and the attached reference will not weigh into
their rating if it is not posted), and we will be waived from any potential
liability. If the TALON system or one of our administrators makes an adjustment,
we will give a good reason in the TALON notes, and will link to relevant sources
(such as message board statements made by the contact or E-Mails forwarded
to us) in the reference history column.
Most TALON contacts will start out with no rating (although we DO have our
opinions, which we will keep to ourselves for the most part unless they are
excellent) , although we will make a few exceptions for professionals who
we know well and can vouch for (Hey, you have to be able to set some goal
for others to shoot for), and most of those will be given five star rankings
by default. We will encourage everyone to have others send in references so
they can boost their ratings.
As was the policy before, we will not recognize anyone who is not professional,
whether it be because of a lack of qualifications, licenses, misrepresentation,
unethical conduct, or any unprofessional behavior at all. If we think that
they are not good for the industry, we simply will not recognize them and
will exclude them from the database. Also, we reserve the right to deny, omit,
suspend, or remove contacts at any time and without any given reason. In some
cases, there may be no wrongdoing on the part of the contact, but we may determine
that they simply are inappropriate in some way for inclusion in the database;
for example, an adult entertainment company may certainly be a legitimate
and professional organization, but it would not be appropriate or a “right
fit” for our database, simply because they operate in an incompatible
industry.
This will add professional accountability and credibility to the database
reference rating system, and will take the edge off of some of the controversy.
People won’t discover their contact information listed with two or a
three star rating without any idea of why their rating is like that while
others are shining with four and five star ratings, and it will be less likely
that they will perceive the database as some sort of attack against them or
some way of making them appear to be less desirable professionals than others
in the database. They will simply be in control of working toward getting
their rating where they believe it should be by getting other professionals
to send in references. Parties sending in references will be verified and
added to the database automatically so their reference can weigh in to the
rating system for that contact.
For now, our team is going over the format once again, adding these new upgrades
while continuing to polish it. We’ve nailed this system, and can actually
have our cake and eat it, too, for once. TALON remains compelling, it retains
all of it’s new features, and we found a better way to make it work.
Work on "the sewer" is continuing, too. This “list all”
database will work on a level below TALON and will be PHP based so users can
directly create and maintain their listings. The categories will automatically
link to the relevant TALON categories.
We hope that everyone is happy now as work on the database continues.
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