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02-15-2008 , 02:53 PM
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Every tiime I visit the forum, I always puzzled about this thing called "rating". Some of them are 5 stars and some of them are 1 star. But whatever the number of stars, they are more eye catcher than the nonrated ones, i.e., a one star or no star still better than no rating, in degree of eye catching. Since I am wondering, I 'rated' one of my thread as 5 stars just for fun, and from now on it is a 5 star thread .

What am I rambling about? That those ratings are not much different from "your own mother said you are good."


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02-15-2008 , 03:24 PM
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My guess is that you would give a star/s to those threads that are on topic and have a solution to a problem. The fewer the stars the less on topic they are? it just adds another criteria when doing a search.
 
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Bun, the ratings work as well as they're used. In a few cases that is very well, and in most not so much. I tend to apply either 5 or 1 and rarely any in between, based on how valuable a thread strikes me.
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02-15-2008 , 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by bunanson View Post
Since I am wondering, I 'rated' one of my thread as 5 stars just for fun, and from now on it is a 5 star thread .

What am I rambling about?


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LOL Man I think this is funny bun. I think I'll go rate all my threads five stars right now. he chuckles. Neil
 
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02-15-2008 , 07:15 PM
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LOL Man I think this is funny bun. I think I'll go rate all my threads five stars right now. he chuckles. Neil

I am afraid to say, you are the only one understand this post. What good does it do if everybody rate their own rating? Am I missing something? Another one, if I rate some thread 5stars, and somebody else rated it 1 stars, would I "expect" to see the ave of 3 stars. I am NOT sure.

Just a thought.

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02-15-2008 , 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bunanson View Post
I am afraid to say, you are the only one understand this post. What good does it do if everybody rate their own rating? Am I missing something? Another one, if I rate some thread 5stars, and somebody else rated it 1 stars, would I "expect" to see the ave of 3 stars. I am NOT sure.

Just a thought.

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Well thanks Bun, but I'm not sure I understand it really. I would imagine that the individual ratings that people give to threads are averaged out by the system. I get your point though. Like a lot of things on the internet, it's as good as the users ,like texrat said. Speaking of which, love to hear about what else you do for fun in that thread.

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02-15-2008 , 09:15 PM
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I think Texrat is correct in a way that "rating" works as well as they're used. I still chuckled that one can 'rate' themselves.


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02-15-2008 , 09:40 PM
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I think Texrat is correct in a way that "rating" works as well as they're used. I still chuckled that one can 'rate' themselves.


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LOL, Tell you what Bun, I'm going to give this thread five stars right now! Neil
 
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Yeah, but it's not hard to bring down a self-rating. You rate your thread 5 stars, and then some rodent comes along with a 1...
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Yeah, but it's not hard to bring down a self-rating. You rate your thread 5 stars, and then some rodent comes along with a 1...
I did do an experiment on a poor fellow's thread, it was a 5stars, and i added a 1star rating, the poor soul's thread became a 3stars immediately (that means, there is only one 5star rating for that thread, umm). I was about to reset it and voted for a 5stars, "changing rating is not allowed". Now, there is a 5star thread in the forum got pull down by a naughter member, downgrade to become a 3 stars. So much about this BS. BTW, I just counter balanced with another 5 stars, now it is a 4 stars, that is fun


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