Community Page & Cafe

...used to be called the Community Page. Now it is called the Member Centre. This is the hub of Ciao, and there is a button at the top of the page when you are logged in that takes you to the Member Centre. Here, you can search for another member by name, by typing their name in the search box at the top of the page and pressing search. This is a handy item when you have read something by a member and want to get back to their page. ANNOUNCEMENTS ...
...announcements that may be important. Community Announcements will tell you about things going on in the Community and System Announcements is particularly interesting when things are going wrong with the site. There are usually reasons posted there about technical things that are going on. CIAO CHARTS **************** This section is divided into the charts for this week, and then on the right, the charts since Ciao started. It shows you the reviews ...

thingywhatsit 11.01.2004 (16.11.2004) · Read full review
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...and problem with, the Ciao community centre. Now, I've just had a read through some of the other ops here and I'm going to do my best to avoid saying all the same stuff again. If you want to know how it works, check it out - it's pretty self explanatory and if you really don't get it there are plenty of other ops here written by people entirely deserving of your 2p who will tell you. What follows is my thoughts on what's good and what's not about ...
...my main gripe with the Community Centre as it stands is it's too much Ciao and not enough Community. ALl it really is is a source of information provided for our perusal by the Ciao team. So how about some more interactive elements? First of all, a message board or chat area, somewhere people can post notes about ops they like and don't, chat about the site and actually interact with each other directly - as, gasp, people in a non-virtual community ...

ImogenW 11.03.2001 · Read full review
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Ciao has a community centre – some newer or occasional members may be unaware of it as it is not widely advertised on the pages of Ciao. It boasts “It’s your Ciao! Make the most of your membership” – but how I wonder? To me a “community” suggests interaction – agreed Ciao itself needs that all the time with all the writing, reading, rating and commenting but coming to the Ciao “Community” ...
...a notice board than a community effort. True, you might argue that it is the centre of the Ciao “Community” but it depends on how literally you take the words I suppose. Enough rambling, if your ever care to click on the community centre links within Ciao (on the front page and on your profile page) what you will find is invariably somewhat out-of-date. There are the latest Member information notices from Ciao such as changes to the ...

blurbubble 13.06.2001 · Read full review
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...my second opinion posted in Community Centre. The 1st was only used as a gateway for something totally irrelevant and irreverent and was subsequently deleted, so this time I’ll try to stick to the subject. LOL. Ciao is essentially a consumer page where Tom, Dick or Harry, without registering, can view the members evaluations of a product. This is how Ciao can afford to give members payment for contributions. It is the life blood of this site ...
...Back to the Community Centre to keep this opinion on board. This section has caused all sorts of contretemps among the members. I personally think the set up is all wrong. I will give you my personal opinion on the helpfulness, using Ciao’s rating system, and the comments section is at your disposal to voice your opinion on my opinion. THISWEEK ~~ Most Read Authors. This is the most misleading list in the centre. Member A writes 30 opinions ...

petersmyth1 23.03.2001 · Read full review
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Community Centre The Ciao Community Centre was introduced to us just over a month ago now and it has sparked a little controversy amongst the Ciao members. Here is my opinion on the community centre and after reading many other opinions I hope to be able to inform new and old members of some of the advantages and disadvantages of the centre and what my overall thoughts are. So let’s start with the features: Newsflash ~ This section has all the ...
...missed. That is the Community Centre in a nut shell, although there are many other links to important areas of the site, i.e. Abuse – you can report any one you think maybe abusing the system, Contact – contact Ciao and provide them with feedback or ask them a question they will always endeavour to get back you as soon as possible. Personally I think that the community centre is a great idea it is my first stop of point every time I log in I read ...

Squidget 24.03.2001 · Read full review
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The Community Center is one of the least used areas of the Ciao site and at the same time one of the most important. It is not only a very important area for the new members but also for the more established member. So what does the Community Center offer us that is so important and relevant to our activity here. I will try to go through each area of the Community Center and provide with the necessary details. Newsflash ------------ All important ...
...is these very members that will ultimately decide if you are successful on this site or not. I hope that this opinion will help some members, especially the new ones, of Ciao and I trust that I have covered all aspects of the Community Center for the maximum benefit. ...

vinodgm 21.09.2001 · Read full review
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...which fall outside of the community category which are unpaid). Maybe they were provided in response to DooYoo, who for a long time have offered similar categories, with increasing success. My problem with them though is simple. If more and more people take to writing lists of their top ten TV programmes, what are Ciao going to gain? Manufacturers and consumer research people are, on the whole, not likely to want to know what your favourite animal ...
...putting together my few, true community opinions (10 most annoying phrases, smoking and music in general) but the top ten list got me thinking. What is Ciao all about? DooYoo have recently had to pull back on some of their community opinions as, as a result of fairly new legislation, they felt that they were running a risk by publishing some of the material that was on the site. So as not to have to closely monitor the offending areas they pulled ...

CareBear 13.06.2002 (14.06.2002) · Read full review
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The community centre has now been around for a while and I am beginning to understand the full use of it, both positive and negative. Before I begin though, I ought to tell you how to access the community centre page. The easiest way is to simply click the link on the left (accessable from your 'my account' page). It's the last link in the box and has the 'new' symbol next to it. The page should then load. The first thing you will notice on the ...
...interesting parts to the Ciao community centre too. One is the contact addresses on the left of the screen near the bottom. Annoyingly these can only be used if you have an 'on computer' email program such as outlook express. Being a hotmail user, I dont and so this is rather useless. In fact, its worse than that because it crashed my system if I try to click on them (it puts up a message saying cannot open this application as there is no working ...

leahslad 30.06.2001 · Read full review
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...going to explain what the community centre is – that is like teaching my Grandmother to suck eggs. But something has prompted me to write this opinion and I think something needs to happen pretty quickly if we are to protect our community here at Ciao. As you all know, you can pop to the community centre to read any updates from the Ciao team, see a list of all the new active members of the day and to sit and analyse (if you so wish!) who ...
...as you click on the community centre (CC) button you are taken to a page which clearly states “ITS YOUR CIAO!”. So come on guys……PLEASE take some action before we lose the community aspect that has kept Ciao strong for over a year! Support and comment on this opinion if you agree with me. What am I referring to? Those damn league tables. I hate them! Earlier in the year Ciao asked us what we all thought about them and we ...

moose 20.09.2001 · Read full review
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...protested and complained about the Community Centre, and Ciao have listened to our suggestions. First they changed the charts to include only member reads. Then they asked us all what we thought of the charts so we could democratically vote on the matter. Then they actually used the results to make changes in a very fair way. Isn't it nice to know if we have a problem with the site that if enough people agree Ciao will try to rectify it! For the ...
...Possible future improvements for the Community Centre: This is the interesting bit. Please leave your comments in the comments section, as we can now be sure that if someone comes up with an idea that enough other members want there is a very real chance it will be implimented! I would personally like some kind of chat room or comments board where you can have a more interactive element to Ciao without having to use the comments section after opinions ...

student9824 08.03.2001 (23.03.2001) · Read full review
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...so much to both the community and the cafe I doubt I could cover it all if I tried in this op,so instead I will stick to the point of my writing this piece and hopefully you will all bear with me. ***Cafe section and its rewards*** All established and many new memebers are familiar with the prize fund and the monthly competition and how it all works. The monthly competition pertains to just one catagory and has only one diamond to reward the winner. ...
...challange being listed on the community page Granted this is princeply a money generating site from commercial retailers and thus creative writting/advice type ops in the cafe don't seem to generate funds and hence get rewards. The saddest aspect to this is that hand in hand with the money side of the site is the community which generates wonderful cafe ops, freindships and site interraction. A spin off effect of this is that the members magazine ...

babajane32 20.09.2003 (17.10.2003) · Read full review
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...few opinions about the Ciao community centre it is quite clear that there is quite a big rift amongst the people that are for it and those who oppose it. It has constantly been praised and also constantly slated, so I hope my opinion will be somewhere in between as I can see both the good and the bad. ~~~ My good thoughts on the community centre ~~~ It provides a valuble service to Ciao members who look out for other good writers or writers that ...
...rate them? The community centre shows you who the most trusted people are, very useful if you are looking for a good and trustworthy opinion to read. Also shown are the newest active members of the Ciao website, not really sure why this is there, but more often than not you will see thier opinions quite a few times in the first few hours they have appeared (we were all like that though). Theres a handy little box too with 6 different options in ...

Martin.rowley 17.06.2001 · Read full review
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The Community Centre is a fairly new section on Ciao. Its intention is to keep up the community spirit on Ciao and to keep everyone happy. It also gives you information about what is going on at Ciao at the moment and lots of other things you may want to know about. Finding the Community Centre... The ComC, as I will call it here, can be found by, from any page on Ciao, clicking on the Ciao.com logo at the top of the page. Then, on the homepage, ...
...Wanted... Like on most community pages on Ciao, you'll find the Most Wanted section. This, as you most probably know, is where a top member is put for a month and they rotate with ten other members on the community pages, so when you see the homepage, you can go to Saltire and read her! So this, as you can imagine, is very good. Anyone who is even nominated for the Most Wanted should feel very proud of themselves. As you can imagine, it's very ...

danieletheridge 19.05.2001 · Read full review
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...to write about the Ciao community centre but before I begin I felt it only fitting to write about the Ciao community spirit. As you are reading this, you are probably one of those who reads, rates and gets their due reward for doing so from the site. By this I mean that you get to see what other people are writing aswell as recieve the return reads and comments that help your work. This is the community spirit, one person reading another persons ...
...do I think of the community centre? I think it is a big letdown to be honest. I think they have the right idea, but just haven't thought it all through properly. I found the report email links to be extrememly annoying and the pay date item is a good idea but isnt truthful. (Oh by the way, I dont have outlook configured, so it effectively halted my computer for 6 minutes while it tried first finding it and then claimed it was unable to open it, along ...

robsgirl 14.06.2001 · Read full review
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The Community Centre is a relatively new addition to Ciao, and despite the fact that I go there quite a lot it really isn't a very good idea. Some of it is very useful, but other parts give a pretty bad idea of what Ciao's about. Before I slate it, first I'll cover the good points. The new members list is a good idea, as it is often hard for a new writer to be noticed. This gives them a bit more coverage, and if they use it well (i.e.. write good ...
...the best thing about the Community centre is the way that the staff at Ciao (well, the people over in France) use it as a message board to let people know what's going on. Or at least that's the idea. It mustn't take more than a few minutes to update this page, yet last month when Ciao were having all those problems they didn't keep everyone up to date with information, leading to rumours and a lot of bitterness. It's a good idea to use this area ...

real_rob_writer 17.07.2001 · Read full review
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