Posted May 6, 201015 yr The rating 5 stars on the side of each thread. I don't really see a point to that. Well to me, cause I read people's threads mainly on the title and what section its in. And when I see someone rating it 1 star. I don't really understand. Someone care to explain why we even have that?
May 6, 201015 yr Author I don't understand it either. I feel like 95% of all the threads get 1 star'd. What I do to counter that is I literally 5 star every thread I see.
May 6, 201015 yr stupid people like to 1 star threads just for the fun of it. i dont find much meaning to it either lol.
May 6, 201015 yr yeah, the 1-starers do make it a bit pointless bet you it's nathan actually.... no, nathans more rude comedy, not just bugging people, thats ADs job lol
May 6, 201015 yr I couldn't care less its pretty pointless maybe keep it in Random and maybe Videos but thats it.
May 6, 201015 yr Im going to rate this thread 1/5 Stars just cause im cool. Yeah deleting is cool, but it might look a bit..open.
May 6, 201015 yr your could replace it with a smiley face or a frown and see how that works out like this is good is bad
May 6, 201015 yr Nah, having smiley's is rather a bad approach to it in my opinion, it would just look...odd and silly? Sometimes, I think the rating system is a positive thing to attract more members to popular discussions, but then it can be a negative at the same time; members would dismiss looking at threads if they are about 1-3 stars because the threads seem unpopular. In my opinion, the ratings have also helped me as a Mod (I don't know about the others lol) to look for more offensive posting, spam, threads that have already been discussed, and ones that are just unnecessary.
May 6, 201015 yr The problem with the rating system is that so many of the possible discussions that Are good are actually getting 1-star'd to where they're seen as 1-3 stars. So meh. I don't really think it should be in random or videos only if we were to remove it altogether. That would be pointless. I would just say remove it altogether. Maybe a "like thread" button? If people hate it, then they can just not press the like button. The threads that are liked more still will (hopefully) get a higher rating. But to be honest I really don't care for a rating system.
May 6, 201015 yr Author Another thought that came to mind. Is you could do what KairiSora said and make a "like Thread" button. But the more people like it the higher it rises in the Section. So say I make a thread about apples in the random section. If people like it they click like and it moves up? I don't know Giving random ideas.
May 7, 201015 yr In all honesty, I would have to agree that the rating system is rather pointless. Even if an entry is well written and original, it always seems to get 1-star spammed. If this is going to happen with every entry, why not just get rid of it?
May 7, 201015 yr what kaiso said is good, although auxons idea would be good, but it means that you'd then have 'thumbs downers'. although that system could work, and i wouldn't miss the stars one bit...
May 7, 201015 yr I don't use the rating system at all, and I don't really care for it - but I DO think .. It should be removed because if someone made a thread they liked then it got downrated then they might not want to post anymore or something. That's going a bit overboard but I'm still not sure about it. It's like rating the person who made the thread, kind of like .. annonymus put downs? idk. I like the "like" idea. Kinda like facebook? o-o
May 7, 201015 yr I didn't even notice until I looked here and read that. told you, no-one would miss it
The rating 5 stars on the side of each thread. I don't really see a point to that. Well to me, cause I read people's threads mainly on the title and what section its in. And when I see someone rating it 1 star. I don't really understand.
Someone care to explain why we even have that?