Warcraft Ratings

The changes I am currently working on:

- Adding Items and Gear to comment and rate on!
Items will automatically be extracted from uploaded Gear Profiles, and a form to upload specific items will be available too
- Sorting options for the screenshots, profiles and Loot items sub-lists
- Adding icons to all the remaining icon-less topics
- Adding descriptions to more topics

If you wish to add a vote or a comment, you need to first Register.
The registration Process shouldn't take more than a few seconds and will automatically sign you in upon completion. Once you are signed in, you will be able to vote and comment on products.

If you have already registered but are not signed in any more, just enter your login details on the Sign In page.

You will need to be signed in to vote.

Using the topic list on the left hand side, simply browse to the topic you wish to vote on and you should see voting options like this:


Moving your mouse over the gray squares you display a colour and a tooltip on what value it represents.
Just click the square that corresponds to your vote.

If you do not see the voting squares, try and click on the "Rate this topic!" link in the upper section of the Topic Details page.

You will need to be signed in to add a comment.

Using the topic list on the left hand side, simply browse to the topic you wish to comment on, and look for the "Add a comment!" links.
- One link is located at the very bottom of the Topic Details page, below all existing comments, if any.
- The other link is located towards the top, in the upper section of the Topic Details page.

Clicking either of these links will display a new comment area similar to this one:


Simply type your comment and click the "Submit comment" button.
You can use simple bbCode features such as [b]old, [u]nderline and a few more. You can also use [druid] or [shaman] to show the corresponding class icons.
Just use the buttons available in the add comment section
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If you decide to not comment after all, just click the cancel button or one of the "Add a comment!" links.

You will need to be signed in to add a screenshot.

Using the topic list on the left hand side, simply select "Screenshots", then select the category of screenshots that best corresponds to the image you wish to upload.
At the bottom of the category page you will find a "Add a Screenshot" section.


- Browse to your screenshot by clicking the "Select your image" button.
- Enter a friendly title/legend for your screenshot.
- Click on "Submit Screenshot".

Only gif and jpeg formats are accepted
All screenshots are adjusted to fit a width of 960 pixels.
All uploads will be invisible to the rest of the community until a moderator validates them. Once approved, your screenshot will show in the category list and everyone will be able to comment and vote on it.

You will receive an email notification when your screenshot is approved.
If one of your screenshots is rejected, it will show as such in your list, but no one else will be able to see it.

You will need to be signed in to add an Gear Profile.

Using the topic list on the left hand side, simply select "Gear Profiles", then select the class of the character you wish to upload.
At the bottom of the class page you will find a "Add an Gear Profile" section.


- Select the Zone (U.S., Europe, Korea ...)
- Start typing the Realm name, it should list the matching Realms on the right hand side.
- Clik on the corresponding Realm name
- Enter the name of your character
- Click on "Submit Gear Profile".

You will see details of the upload, and you will get redirected to the profile once the upload is done.

You will need to be signed in to edit a vote.

Browse to the topic you wish to change your vote on.
If you see the voting options, just click on a different colour and your vote will be automatically updated.
If you do not see the voting buttons, try and click the "Rate this topic!" link in the upper section of the Topic Details page. this should display the voting buttons.

To cancel/remove a vote completely, just click on the "Remove vote" link on the right of the voting buttons, as shown in the Image below:


You can obviously only change/remove votes you have submitted. Votes from other members are theirs to change.

You will need to be signed in to edit or delete a comment.

You can edit a comment at any time by clickin the "Edit" link in your comment box. This will make the comment editable and you'll be able to make modifications.
Just click "Update Comment" to save them

To remove/delete a comment, just click on the "Remove comment" link in the bottom right corner of the comment to delete, as shown on this picture:


You will only be able to delete comments that have not been replied to.
You can obviously only delete comments you have submitted. Comments from other members are theirs to delete.

You will need to be signed in to delete a screenshot.

It is not possible to edit a screenshot at this stage.

To remove/delete a screenshot, navigate to the category page where you screenshot is listed, click the corresponding "Delete" link in the bottom right corner of the screenshot
You can obviously only delete screenshots you have submitted. Screenshots from other members are theirs to delete.

Every time you contribute to the website, by rating or commenting on a topic, by getting a submitted screenshot approved, or when someone rates one of your comments up, you will get a certain amount of Warcraft Ratings reputation.

Your current reputation level can be found under the menu to the left, or in your Member Profile page.


The reputation levels correspond to those in World of Warcraft: Friendly (3000), Honored (6000), Revered (12000) and finally Exalted (21000)

The Reputation is mainly used to show the level of contribution a member has made, but it also counts towards the War Effort (see below for more details)

On Warcraft Ratings like in the game, the Horde and Alliance are two distinctive factions, and you need to pick your side!
We understand however that you might have toons on both sides of the fence, and we allow you to split your preference as you like. Some will chose to be hardcode Hordies, and others Alliance completely.
Others again might wish to chose a proportion of both.

In your Profile Options you can set your ratio of Horde/Alliance as you like. Just adjust the percentages by clicking one icon or the other.


By default the ration is 50% for both factions, and the gold you provide for the war effort is split equaly across factions.

Horde and Alliance are both competing for resources.
Whenever your reputation increases, a part of that reputation is converted to gold, and is split between the factions.

The split is done according to the faction ratio you have chosen; For example if you selected 100% Alliance (0% Horde), then the Horde will not get a copper from your reputation.
If however you set the ratio to 67% Horde / 33% Alliance, then the Horde will get double what the Alliance gets.

The accumulated gains from all members or Warcraft Ratings are split according to their preferences and displayed on the top of the website.


In the example above, it seems the horde members are doing a better job than their Alliance couterparts.

You do not actually need to register or sign in to browse the information on this website, it is all free and available for everyone to browse through.

The only situation where you wil need to log in (Register) is when you will want to add information to the website, via a comment or a vote.

The only reason we currently ask for an email address during registration is to send you a new password should you ever forget your current one.

It is not currently planned to have any automated information or newsletter sent to your email address, and in the event of such email communication being available, we would request your consent prior to sending you anything.

The information on this website is available for free.

The topic list displayed on the left hand side is not an exhaustive list of all the World of Warcraft content.
The list currently focuses on the most used/known topics, but can -and will- grow with more over time.

If you would like to see a specific topic added to the list, please do not hesitate to send an email to the webmaster, and we'll see if/how we can include it in our list.

Yes.

If you would like to see other topics added to the list, please do not hesitate to send an email to the webmaster, and we'll see if anything can be done.

Candy graphs are a visual representation of the votes. The colours represent the 5 voting options, and the size of the colours in the graph represent the amount of those votes.

As an example, consider the following two candy graphs:


Candy a. has received two ratings: 3 and 4.             The purple (3) and the orange (4) have the same size
Candy b. has received three ratings: 1, 1 and 5.      The green (1) is twice as large as the red (5)
In both cases the average rating is 3.5

What the graphs show us is the distribution of the votes, the standard deviation.
On candy a. voters seem to agree, on candy b. there is alot of variation in the voters' opinion

Describing what the topics are for is not the purpose of this website.

If you would like more information on World of Warcraft, I would suggest you check the official World of Warcraft website.

Updating the topic list is a manual process and the team will try and make sure the new features in wow patches are added as soon as we hear of them.

Other topics (such as non-currently listed ones) will be added to the list when we receive a request for them, and decide that it is a legitimate request.

Direct links to specific topics, users or pages (aka permalinks) are now possible.

simply create type a url that looks like one of the following
      For Topics            .../?id=<Id of the topic>   (note that an Id over 10000 points to a screenshot)
      For User Profiles   .../?u=<Id of the user>
      For Other Pages    .../?p=<name of the page>   (e.g latest, bestworst, allmembers, faq, etc)

This is most probably due to the browser you are using.

Pink (RGB 255/00/255) is the transparency mask we use in our PNG images.
In short, where you see pink, the image should actually be transparent. This is a known issue with PNG images in older versions of Internet Explorer (6.x and some 7.x).

To work around this issue, you can try using another browser (such as Firefox or Chrome for example) or upgrade your Internet Explorer to a more recent version.

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This website has been mostly developed using PHP and MYSQL for the server processing, and contains alot of javascript to handle all the user interactions and ajax requests.

Using jQuery librairies for cross-browser javascript features.

The avatars provided here are used to differenciate members, but are not an important part of this website.

By limiting the amount of available avatars we remove the possibility of members using inappropriate images, and also remove the need for moderation.
In the future members might be able to upload their own avatars, but this is not planned at this stage.

There is no way for us to retrieve your current password, as it is encrypted as soon as you register.
It is however possible for us to generate a new password, and send it to you.

To do so, follow the Password forgotten? link available on the Sign In page.

Fill in your username OR your email address and click the "Send me a new password" button. Shortly after you should receive a new password in your inbox.

First, please accept our apologies. Although the features have been tested numerous times, there will always be some errors that we miss.

Please send an email to webmaster with (if possible/applicable) the following details:
- What is your environment (what operating system, what browser/version you are using)
- Is this bug systematic, can you reproduce it all the time or does it only appear randomly?
- Is there a step by step workflow that triggers this bug? if so, please share.
- If you have a screenshot of the bug, please attach it to the email

Thanks for reporting the bug, this will help make Warcraft Ratings a better website

Feel free to send any comments, suggestions to the webmaster.

We will consider all suggestions, and -if applicable- will try and include them in the future updates.

At this point, the best way to help is to register and start posting comments.
The more members posting, the better the quality of the information, and the more useful this website will be.

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I've also added a Paypal donation button should someone feel extra generous ;-)

Thank you for your support. You are the one making Warcraft Ratings, i'm only providing the media.