Folks, I made some changes to the Karma system to be a bit fairer with the distribution of the love. I've also created a new rule that you need at least 20 karma points to vote.

This means that new users need to do some good stuff before they can vote.

A few people pointed out that a recent report containing pictures was in violation of the community standards defined a couple of years ago: http://stokereport.com/content/what-are-community-standards-follow-stoke...

"Every time I'm censored on Stoke Report, I feel EXACTLY like Rosa Parks."

"Is that spot really "secret" anymore? Come on, people. This sight is a constant cycle of o ..."

"It's not about secret vs not. It's about it being a big controversy and leading to huge fl ..."

"OK, but I explicitly did not provide any imagery or text to indicate the location, no hint ..."

"I for one am a big fan of distigushing surf spots as "OB" and "NOT OB". I can hear it alr ..."

Happy New Year StokeReporters!

Thanks for all your reports, rants, comments and even some of the trolls :)

Good people of Stoke land. I've added Tahoe back as a location in the main navigation. Cool? Are folks psyched to report on skiing conditions?

"What ski conditions? Hah. I like them. Stoked for some snow to come our way."

"Not really... I always say - why ski when we have free surf right here in our own backyard ..."

"fuck yeah! here's to waves of snow! if we get any!"

"Im doing a snow dance right now!"

"Maybe the action of putting it up SR will motivate the snow gods. As one of the original p ..."

1. Stay Stoked
2. Don't post on Secret Spots
   Don't post reports or pictures on sensitive spots. Don't call out specific areas on beaches in your reports or rants e.g. sl0at at SFOB. Don't post on any location that isn't listed.
3. Show Respect
   Always show respect on StokeReport and in the water
4. Don't be a Dick
   Stokereport welcomes all points of view. Please express them. Be polite and respectful and don't let it get personal. Don't post spam, don't troll or be a dick. Don't harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others.

"There was a discussion here a few minutes ago that seems now to have been taken down [edit ..."

"Posting pictures of unamed spots is highly encouraged. For the record, StokeReport does ..."

"Tangerine's after-the-fact photos of OB yesterday were sweet and it would be a big loss to ..."

"It may not make sense, but: those of us who have participated in stokereport since the ear ..."

"Let's be honest. There are about 6 readers who care if a street is named. Those 6 people ..."

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Folks, I just added a new feature to surface controversial comments. As the name implies, this new feature surfaces comments that have had a good amount of both positive and negative voting. Let me know what you think.

The comment below, for example, got a count of 9 votes and ended up with a total of -1.

"That may be true, but I'm not sure how it's relevant to surfacing controversial comments? ..."

"Well, I didn't know the top two comments would be mine and I really wasn't looking to be t ..."

"I liked that the original title for these comments was "Trolled Comments?" Can we go back ..."

"sorry, missed my 4:20 class lesson on so-called 'trolled comments', for obvious reasons... ..."

"Hmmm...i'm not sure "controversial" is the correct description for this section. I like th ..."

StokeReporters. Just a reminder that all the content on stokereport is created and managed by you, the stokereport community. If you see content that you like, please click on the thumbs up icon. Conversely, if you don't like it or don't want to see it on the site, vote it down.

"+1. Heh."