Hey folks,

We're about to launch some changes that we've been thinking about for a long time. We feel like the old school behavior of rating and commenting on peoples profiles and photos has been forgotten and based on the feedback from a lot of long-time members.. we're not the only ones.

To help this we've decided to make some changes to the point rewards for rating profiles and photos and leaving profile and photo comments. Because of these changes we've also had to adjust some special ability bling items so they retained the same (or more in certain cases!) value.

Here's what we're starting with over the next 15-20 minutes, and we'll probably adjust these over time based on everyones feedback:

* doubled the base point value for giving and receiving 11 ratings to profile and photos.

* _drastically_ increased the base point value for giving and receiving non-11 ratings of profile and photos...

* _majorly_ increased points for receiving and giving profile and photo comments.

Because of these changes we're also making the following changes to special ability bling:

* reduced Auto-11's run-time from 24 to 12 hours.

* reduced Boomerang run-time from 8 to 4 hours.

* reduced Famplifier run-time from 6 to 3 hours.

The plan is for everyone to receive the same amount of points for running the special ability bling items listed above, only it'll take half as much time.

Hold onto your boots...

-mike