5/17/04 - Now you can see everything you submitted. Go to your user page and see... You can now also send private messages. spam filtering to come soon. Mojo contributed some cute pix, and I will rotate pix and put them randomly on various area. If you have submitted logos for the site, we may use them too.

5/05/04 - In rare cases, within the last week, there was a script error which attributed a wrong username for guest posting. This occured when a ballot allowed guest choice entry, and the guest made an entry without username being asssigned under the ballot rating page. In those rare instances, the username and userid of the ballot maker was posted as the entry maker, instead of it being attributed to Blank Guest "Anonymous" This has been fixed, and I am working to eliminate all the erronous postings. Sorry about this.

5/05/04 - Karma engine report will be not be shown on the comment area anymore. They will still be sent to your private message area, so you can see how you are being rated.

4/20/04 - karma boost for veterans: if your userid <1000 +2, <2000 +1.5, <3000 +1, <4000 +.5.

4/18/04 - Some new categories, "Would you?" and "Quiz". quiz category is interesting, because you can see the answer to the quiz on the result page. Better implementation of Karma system, still in beta stage, so if you karma gets too low, and you think you don't deserve it, just contact me and I will reset it for you.

4/15/04 - Finally, a way to block the sabotage Michael Jackson user from Tehran...Comment karma rating. by clicking on the blue date on comment area, you can rate abusive message out of existence. The comment is still kept in the database, and you can see it by going to the rating page, but on the comment area, the bad comments are marked "**karma block**". This way, the users who are logged on can go and rate her down, and within few messages, they will be locked out.

4/13/04 - 5000 unique registered users. Is that cool or what? :)

04/12/04 - Since my campaign to list this site on the search engine as the premier place for "best and worst lists", my position using that keyword went from 63rd to 10th! I am actually shown on the first page of the search results! It's the POWER of Bestandworst users! Thanks a million! I will be compiling the list of people who linked me, drop me a line with your web address in case I miss yours in my search!

03/25/04 - Was busy with work, and have been ignoring the site for a few days. and of course Murphys Law kicked in and there was a huge surge in database queries. I think I finally sorted out the database (it badly needed more indexes and queries for the 1million+ records it contains). That along with moving the server from Windows to Linux, have finally (crossing my fingers) been completed. Another sleepless night. I am going to sleep now. Goodnight.

03/19/04 - Some people were complaining that they didn't see their karma. I wanted to get a good average to build the karma before it is exposed for public view, because I was getting a lot of complaints about fluctuating karma. For the benefit of the positively rated user, your rating is shown if your karma is above a certain threshold, even though we don't have enough sample.

03/17/04 - Final touches to the site, Everything should work now, including the new registration page. Thanks for your patience during this time of transition. Now, the email verification is working, so new users will have higher karma assigned with more weight.

03/14/04 - Now the comments the user made on ballots are listed on the user page. It made more sense.

03/13/04 - Moving from Microsoft server to Linux server. Lot more problem than anticipated. Should be online by 15th. hopefully.

02/29/04 - Since the karma rating system took effect, my page views per visit from new visitors went from 1.2 to 13.8. It means people are staying longer and looking and voting more. My hit count is down 30%, but that's from all the saboteurs logging off the site. The system is not perfect, I am still testing variables to catch cheats and abuses, so if you have had a good ballot/choices disappear, you may contact me for individual review.

02/27/04 - This site may be shutting down soon, thanks to all the sabotage / racist posters. Read more.

02/27/04 - Karma database crashed, everybody's karma was lost. Sorry about this. We all gotta start from the beginning.

02/19/04 - No more racist posts. PERIOD. It will not continue. click here if you want to know more.

02/03/04 - Have something to say about another user? Go put a comment on their user page - rather than making another useless ballot. Go leave a message there.

02/01/04 - Now the rating interface is lot more effective. If you are a good contributor, you should be able to win something cool by just posting ballots on this site. Now, users on this site will have the complete control to filter out junk and kick out assholes. I don't have to censor anyone anymore, because all 3000 registered users will be able to do that for me. Learn how.

01/22/04 - I have received my 10th threat of lawsuit today, and it's a good one. details to follow. Certain celebrity, whom will remain nameless, decided not to sue me - or decided it wasn't worth it. Too bad, I would have made it to the national news if they did.

01/15/04 - Please don't threaten anyone. I just got off the phone with the Secret Service. click here to find out what happened.

01/05/04 - Long overdue update: Now you can specify whether you want to restrict comments and votechoices to registered members only. This should up the quality of the ballots tremendously, as random one time guest would not be able to put in a sabotage choices in your ballot. Several more updates are coming very soon.

11/08/03 - A quick update to the user info page. Now you can update your information, as well as add a picture, if you have one online. (thanks for your suggestion h00chie_gurl) More feature to follow soon - still testing messaging.....

11/06/03 - I am lifting the ban on Gagoonies today. If you see another racist comment from him, contact me. If I find further offensive post from him, he will be permanently banned. I hope we will all give him a second chance for the time being.

10/20/03 - Ever wondered who these people are, posting messages and polls? You can see their public user page, by typing their name into the user information form on the main page. (registered users only)... I will be adding editing features as soon as I have some time. Please register and let others know who you are, what you stand for, and where you are from.

10/15/03 - My favorite resident nazi, Gagoonies, have finally ticked me off to a point where I had to ban him. Unless I can get him to agree to some ground rules, I will block all his attempt at posting further messages. If we cannot come to an agreement, his messages (all 2600+ messages) will be wiped from the site - so don't even bother replying to his messages.

10/08/03 - I am so sick of abusive ballots being entered. Now on, if the ballot is miscategorized, it will be automatically forwarded into isolation mode. Children come to this site folks. Please keep it clean, or take it into the adult area.

9/30/03 - some new improvements in databases, new types and categories (thanks to Buzzer for the suggestions)

9/12/03 - now you can see the guest user's ip address and timestamp by clicking guest user's name.

9/1/03 - pages at bestandworst.com are static. You can rebuild each page yourself by clicking "rebuild this page" link located at the lower right side of every user generated page.