Rate the PLATE official news

Tonight we released a couple tiny improvements:

1. A new revised, tidier Member details page also including a new “incidents resolved” metric.
2. Some additional info snippets on the home page: “Rated Organisations” and “Vehicle types in incidents”. We hope that you find this information as interesting as we found it.
3. “Most Common Ratings” has also been changed to show percentage values.
4. There were also a couple of subtle tidy ups and improvements around the place not worth mentioning.

There is more exciting work nearing completion which you should see rolled out over the coming 1-2 weeks.

How’s your driving?

Best Regards

Rate the PLATE Team.

A big thank you to all the users who continue to share our vision and supply us with so many diverse, wonderful ideas.

In the Rate the PLATE engine room, a lot of your ideas are in progress right now. Its exciting for us, because each time we push out some new features, the feedback is really valuable. Its a process of continuous improvement.

Keep ‘em comin’

Best Regards

Rate the PLATE Team.

Today we launched a minor variation on the core Ratings system - the ability to actually “Resolve” incidents.

Although simple today, this is a feature that is going to evolve substantially over the coming weeks. This initial version is a very simple, cut down tool allowing Members to “resolve” an incident if they feel that both parties have reached an appropriate understanding through calm, non-violent communication. If you are in this boat, first of all, thanks for helping make a difference on our roads. Secondly, you will find access to this feature in the “my Ratings” area.

In the future, we are going to see this feature enhanced considerably, so that it brings together both parties a lot more. This is one of the key differences that we see between Rate the PLATE and say your typical blog/forum text-only site. Rate the PLATE is not simply a place where users record their experiences, its an interactive tool that can be used to make a real difference out in the real world. Its an application that you can use to solve problems.

As always, your feedback on this new feature is greatly valued.

Best Regards

Rate the PLATE Team.

Thanks once again to all you energetic Members who have provided us with your invaluable feedback.

One of the biggest things that you are all wanting is a way to positively reward or thank all of the courteous drivers out there.

We couldn’t agree more - thanks for letting us know how you felt.

Obviously, the core functionality that the site currently offers, revolves around recording negative incidents, but in a way to achieve a positive outcome - awareness. We always intended to introduce a positive rating system, just that it wasn’t the first thing that we built. And to be effective, it needs to work in a fundamentally different way than the current incident reporting system. Avoiding abuse from fake Members attempting to “reward themselves” is critical.

We are pleased to announce that “we have the answer” and are working on something very, very exciting and powerful. We won’t say any more at this stage, but our coders in the Rate the PLATE engine room have been very busy with the Japanese word “kaizen” in the back their minds - persistent improvement. We simply cannot wait to release some of the new functionality.

Please check back soon.

Best Regards

The Rate the PLATE Team.