Ron Paul Pwning the Competition + new features.

Wow, the Paulites are going wild on TryThis. At the time of this post, Ron Paul has 401 votes while Barack Obama is in a distant second with 19. Unfortunately for Barack, there’s no second place here…actually there’s no second place in the actual election either so…good luck everyone. With six weeks left I think the real question is whether or not Ron can break four figures.

Anyway, we added a couple of cool new things today. If you’ve asked a question you now have the ability to close it by selecting the best recommendation. The best question will be marked as such. Once a question is closed, nobody can recommend stuff anymore.

We also added bubble tooltips in some places. Everybody likes bubbles. Bubbles ftw.

Election 2008 and TryThis.com

So. Yeah. We decided that since our site is all about voting up stuff that you think is worth recommending, we’d hold a mock election to see who should be President of the United States next term. I tried to add in all the major candidates. Now it’s up to you guys. The page works like any other voting page in that you can vote for multiple things (although why would you in this case), and you can’t vote for the same candidate more than once.

On Halloween after we’re done stealing candy from children trick-or-treating, we’ll contribute $1000 to the candidate with the most votes. Spread the word. May the Force be with them.

Leaderboard

The new Leaderboard is now available! Stats are gathered in real-time and the board is updated in real-time. More detailed stats are available and will be made available on the profile page once we are done making the modifications.

We will soon be hosting a contest where the top ranking users will receive some awesome prizes!

-Wally

Booya ..some new privacy settings

Ok.. this is a quick post letting everyone know about some new privacy features we added. If you Edit your account settings you’ll see two new checkboxes.

One says: Allow my friends to suggest me as a recommendation for for other people’s requests
This basically makes your profile available as a suggestion. For example, Someone’s looking for a new babysitter and your friend thinks you’d be a good fit. He can recommend your profile to the person asking the question.

the other checkbox says: Make my profile visible to my friends only
This is self explanatory. If you don’t want people who aren’t your friends looking at your profile, then click this box. Although, I personally think you guys should be social and make friends.

Another feature we added is when you go to ask a question. You can make the match request visible to “friends only” if you want…sometimes you want to ask people who know you best.

More updates coming soon.

cheers.

 -Shoaib