Start creating that content again; Pirates of the Burning Sea has released User Content 2.0!

It’s been just shy of a week since we turned on the new user content system in a “live, but testing” mode, and we’re now ready to call the system just plain “live”.

Why “but testing”?—because we knew there would be quite a bit of tuning to ensure that items were moving through the system in exactly the way we wanted to, we started out with somewhat conservative values. We weren’t exactly sure how people would respond to the voting process, after all—especially in terms of volume. Would people vote just enough times to get a posting credit, then post their item; or would they vote like crazed madmen? The thresholds at which items get moved through the system are quite different depending on where actual usage patterns fell.

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