After a few days of living with our (pretty awesome) new voting feature at Quantocracy, we’ve opted to do away with down voting. Readers can now choose to either vote up or not vote at all on each link.

We try to keep things friendly around these parts, and the down voting just began to feel a little dirty. With up voting only, good content will still get more eyeballs, bloggers will still be encouraged to write even better content, and we’ll all get to continue spreading positive vibes.

We appreciate the readers who have taken the time to vote so far, and your previous votes, both up and down, will still be included in the vote totals.

Read on readers!

Mike @ Quantocracy

For those who didn’t visit Quantocracy over the weekend, note that we’ve rolled out phase 2 of our new site.

We’ve given readers more control over the Quant Mashup with the ability to vote on each link. Use the drop-down box at the top of the mashup to sort by reader ratings over the last week, month or all time.

Not all links are created equally. This new feature will help the best links get more visibility, and we hope, encourage bloggers to write even better content. Help be a part of that by making your voice heard.

Note that you’ll need to register to be able to vote by clicking “login/register” in our menu bar. This will allow us to show you what you’ve voted on previously, and prevent users from voting more than once on any given link. Quantocracy respects your privacy and will never ever, under any condition, use your contact info for nefarious purposes.

As of the time of this post, the three top rated recent links are:

2. Interview with Rob Hanna [Better System Trader]
3. Quant Geek Weekend Homework: Academic Finance Research [Alpha Architect]

That’s an encouraging sign. Those are all excellent pieces that show that readers are doing a great job guiding the content of the site. I’m very excited for the coming months and years ahead when we’ll be able to look at the top links of “all-time” and have a list of truly exceptional workmanship.

Read on readers!

Mike @ Quantocracy

Hello Reader – it dawned on me that there’s a huge group of readers who followed The Whole Street via RSS or email and never actually came to our site. Those folks would have never received our announcement that The Whole Street has moved to Quantocracy.com.

(sorry ’bout that)

Why the change?

The Whole Street did great things in its three years. We connected a whole lot of readers with a whole lot of bloggers, and (I hope) made this little corner of the blogosphere a little bit more awesome.

But I wanted to give users more power over the content of the site. Not all links are created equally, and our new site Quantocracy will soon feature forums, user ratings, and custom sorting that will help us to shine the light on the very best workmanship.

In the meantime, we’ve made the site much more readable and mobile-friendly, and added support for Stocktwits and Facebook. These daily RSS and email summaries will continue to work the same as they did before.

Apologies again for the late announce. If you haven’t already, we invite you to visit our new site: Quantocracy.com.

Read on readers!

Mike @ Quantocracy