The rating system


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What it is the point of it if anyone can exploit it?

Do you really guys trust your members to dont do it? 90% of them are immature kids that laugh at fart jokes and engage in pointless fanboy wars thinking they are enlarging their e-penis.

Why dont you get rid of it? As a bonus you would've doing a favor to your server and database by cutting that.

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This has been discussed a million times. I do agree, remove the damn system - It's pointless. Then you have the locals saying "Oh just ignore it" and then it ends there.

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Its abused, but not like you guys are making it out to be.

There are plenty of accurate ratings on a lot of threads.

Just looking now at the latest forum activity panel, every rated thread has an odd rating.

What is the point of implementing a rating if later you will tell us to ignore it?

Ratings, post counts, all useless measures that only cause problems, fights and immature bragging.

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I'd also like to see it gone.

I started a thread last time and for strange reasons, it had no replies and no views yet and it was rated 1 star...

This system is useless and is there just to make Neowin servers load a few more pages every day. If you guys deleted the threads who have only 1 star every month maybe it'd be useful, but then again, some members would be shocked to see their threads deleted :p

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I'd also like to see it gone.

I started a thread last time and for strange reasons, it had no replies and no views yet and it was rated 1 star...

This system is useless and is there just to make Neowin servers load a few more pages every day. If you guys deleted the threads who have only 1 star every month maybe it'd be useful, but then again, some members would be shocked to see their threads deleted :p

only the useless, and pointless ones should be deleted. The raiting system should be discussed as a team and not let a moderator make decisions.

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Just look at the hew staffers thread, it is rated with one star! They dont even respect the official threads.

Again, where there are the accurated rated threads?

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I wonder why the moderators quickly dismiss our opinions. They let Neowin be managed by kid's decissions.

+1. I for one would love to see a site where a moderator will say "While I don't like this, I will bring it up at the next staff meeting" or something like that. Plus, moderators have no power to make site decisions. They can have a voice in it, but in the end its the top executives/admins word.

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+1. I for one would love to see a site where a moderator will say "While I don't like this, I will bring it up at the next staff meeting" or something like that. Plus, moderators have no power to make site decisions. They can have a voice in it, but in the end its the top executives/admins word.

We've discussed these things many, many times before.

We talked about it durning Neowindex, and all staff can see these threads.

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Outside of the movie/jokes sections it remains largely flawed and fuelled by whether or not you like the topic starter and/or section it's in, no denying that.

However I have to say, the ratings trolls need to publicly remain anonymous, so they'll get their childish buzzes off seeing topics like these. Best not to start them, the staff have read them 100 times and nothing has changed so it's ignore it or have a sleepless night, your choice!

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Just look at the hew staffers thread, it is rated with one star! They dont even respect the official threads.

Again, where there are the accurated rated threads?

There are accurate threads right in the latest forum activity....

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Who gives a **** about ratings anyway?

Apparently you do, given your response in this thread.

Outside of the movie/jokes sections it remains largely flawed and fuelled by whether or not you like the topic starter and/or section it's in, no denying that.

However I have to say, the ratings trolls need to publicly remain anonymous, so they'll get their childish buzzes off seeing topics like these. Best not to start them, the staff have read them 100 times and nothing has changed so it's ignore it or have a sleepless night, your choice!

Its about what the people want.

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Ratings are pretty much useless. They get abused and many times the interesting threads are voted 1 star just because a few people within the thread have a disagreement with the thread starter and want there own back. Also the rating in peoples profiles are useless for the same reasons.

Get it sorted Neowin.

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Use/abuse is a delicate line. Some members may feel that certain threads are worth only one star. Whether or not they might be teenagers should not matter.

One could argue that there is no abuse here unless some people have figured out how to vote more than once per thread.

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Use/abuse is a delicate line. Some members may feel that certain threads are worth only one star. Whether or not they might be teenagers should not matter.

One could argue that there is no abuse here unless some people have figured out how to vote more than once per thread.

They could get their friends to vote only once? they might have more then one account? (that you didnt catch) They might even go to every other topic and vote 1 star.

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They could get their friends to vote only once? they might have more then one account? (that you didnt catch) They might even go to every other topic and vote 1 star.

People get one vote per thread. Their friends are free to vote how they like. Duplicate accounts are against the rules and we have existing ways of dealing with that problem.

Even if they go to every other topic and vote 1 star that is still exercising their 1 vote per thread ability. Perhaps they think that half of Neowin sucks. I still don't see it as "abuse".

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Question for thread starter: WHY do you care so much about it?

And there you go. A kid just gave this thread a star.

Maybe because he thought the question had been asked before and the request denied.

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Also the rating in peoples profiles are useless for the same reasons.

Say who gave me a one star rating :p

Dont take me seriously, Im typing this with a smilae, it all good (Y)

Question for thread starter: WHY do you care so much about it?

Because I fail to see the reasons behind an implementation that we are asked to ignore and has no real complex meaning in the threads.

For example, Fed said something interesting: "Some members may feel that certain threads are worth only one star."

Why one? Why not two or three? Why most vote either 5 or 1? That is a polarized view of the thread in hand, meaning no real analysis of that thread content. If that will be the case then just replace it with a "like it/dislike it" system or something like that.

And, in the first place, why is such system neccesary? Are the threads with the highest rating really the best ones? Are the ones rated with 1 star really that bad?

Of, and btw: I have received a couple of "one star" ratings in my profile since I opened this thread ;)

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