What's with all the 1-star "terrible" rated posts??

I'm seeing this more and more. Posts that are interesting, with several replies, ALL positive or constructive, but they mysteriously have a 1-star (terrible) rating cleary rated by someone too cowardly to actually post a comment criticising the thread.
There's 3 like this on the 1st page right now.

I think that if you are going to rate someone's post as terrible you should "man up" and say why. Maybe people rating the posts should have there name attached to it so the cowards will shy away from this foolishness.

I have never rated a thread before (wasnt aware i could- i dont really pay much attention to things like that...) but i just rated this 1-terrible because i thought it would be funny.

sorry, couldnt resist. I mean, its asking for it a bit right?

Who are we to rate other people's posts to begin with? What might not interest me at all could be the most interesting thing to everyone else. I didn't even realize there was a rating system to begin with, I guess because it would never occur to me to do that to someone. It's the wildly varied postings that keep me coming back here to begin with, so I wouldn't want someone to get hammered for trying something interesting. The whole site is a 5-star to me and if some of the posts miss the mark, so what?

I didnt even know what the stars were ,I assumed the number of hits .What waste of time .

Where does it say one star means terrible?

My interpretation:

* = Good
** = Very good
*** = Excellent
**** = Fantastic
***** = Must read
No stars = indifferent

But if someone has rated your thread with one star instead of two, try not to lose any sleep over it! :lol:

I have never rated a thread before (wasnt aware i could- i dont really pay much attention to things like that.

If it interests you,then read it. If not forgetaboutit.

PB:cool:

Where does it say one star means terrible?

My interpretation:

* = Good
** = Very good
*** = Excellent
**** = Fantastic
***** = Must read
No stars = indifferent

But if someone has rated your thread with one star instead of two, try not to lose any sleep over it! :lol:

Uh, click on the arrow beside the rating

***** = Excellent
**** = Good
*** = Average
** = Bad
* = Terrible


I don't make this crap up! :shock:

Nobody has done that to my thread (well except barkley doing it to this one :grin:). I was reading the "tapping" thread and the "baseball" thread; both interesting with no negative comments. Both rated terrible....

I didnt even know what the stars were ,I assumed the number of hits .What waste of time .

+1.

I don't see any arrow beside the ratings. Guess they don't trust me with a vote.:lol: Solution is easy. Just ignore things that don't look interesting to you.

Some people are...shall we say "not very nice".

Uh, click on the arrow beside the rating

***** = Excellent
**** = Good
*** = Average
** = Bad
* = Terrible


I don't make this crap up! :shock:


Huh. How about that. I guess you're right. :smile: I never really paid much attention to the stars before now. But I still like my rating system better :mrgreen:

Oh, that's what the stars mean.

D.H.

They don't mean anything. IMO

Like the guy said- have enough balls to say something if you've got something to say.

Uh, click on the arrow beside the rating

***** = Excellent
**** = Good
*** = Average
** = Bad
* = Terrible


I don't make this crap up! :shock:

Nobody has done that to my thread (well except barkley doing it to this one :grin:). I was reading the "tapping" thread and the "baseball" thread; both interesting with no negative comments. Both rated terrible....


Put yer own five star rating on the thread if you think it's that good. Easy solution.

:mrgreen:

I have never rated a thread before (wasnt aware i could- i dont really pay much attention to things like that...) but i just rated this 1-terrible because i thought it would be funny.

sorry, couldnt resist. I mean, its asking for it a bit right?

I put a 3 star vote on this thread and nothing happened.

Put yer own five star rating on the thread if you think it's that good. Easy solution.

Just tried it on this one. You can't rate your own thread (also a good thing).

Just tried it on this one. You can't rate your own thread (also a good thing).

No, I mean the other ones. :lol:

Had to rate this thread a 1 star, couldn't help myself. :razz:

Not because it's that bad, just because it's funny that you are so peeved by the ratings!

Just to show how observant I am I've posted here for many years now and have never noticed the star ratings until this post...duh.


Tom

If you rate a thread and it doesn't change it's because it is an average off all the ratings, and yours wasn't mathematically enough to move the mean.

Worse than the thread ratings, I was at one forum where the software had the same system for rating users! Talk about ridiculous and juvenile. The site owner quickly disabled it after a number of well-reasoned requests.

Makes you wonder about the mentality of the people that develop this software.

If the subject interests me I read it and if I have something to say about it(without getting into trouble :lol:) I reply to it.

That is- if the OP isn't on my Ignore List. :lol:

I've never rated a thread. I thought there was just an "approval" button. If enough people hit the approval button, then 1 star appeared. If MANY people hit the approval button, then more stars appeared.

Guess I need to read up on the ole TDPRI manual.

A gold star means good job, my brain says so.

seems like any stars at all would make it better than no stars. i would use the stars from "superb" to "OK" and have a system of five toilet icons to rate the negative end of the spectrum.

There's no such thing as a "terrible" thread.


Unless you count all my myriad "0" reply threads over the years.

I'm famous for 'em! :smile:

To the OP, unlike other forums, the rating system is virtually ignored here.

Look around, hardly any threads are rated at all.

I don't know of anyone -- except you -- that pays any attention to the ratings. I'm sure there are, but I don't think the majority of folks here pay it any attention.

I give it five thumbs up.

To the OP, unlike other forums, the rating system is virtually ignored here.

Look around, hardly any threads are rated at all.

I don't know of anyone -- except you -- that pays any attention to the ratings. I'm sure there are, but I don't think the majority of folks here pay it any attention.

Well someone certainly thinks it's important to go around rating all those threads as "terrible" without having the balls to step forward and say so.

Geez, sorry I posted about it. It simply bothered me that Mark Davis, who I respect greatly goes to the trouble of posting an interesting topic and some jerk thinks it should be considered terrible.

If you "don't know of anyone -- except you -- that pays any attention to the ratings" maybe you should disable them no?

seems like any stars at all would make it better than no stars. i would use the stars from "superb" to "OK" and have a system of five toilet icons to rate the negative end of the spectrum.

Mommy, Mommy, my teacher gave me 2 stars on my homework!!

Dear, that means you are BAD. :roll:

LOL

So what does the little blue turnip mean?

I thought only kindy-garden teachers got to hand out stars.

I've never done it and now that I think about it seems kinda silly to me but I don't even really pay attention to it.

So what does the little blue turnip mean?

Hannigan is hallucinating again? :wink:

I once started a thread here that got 5 stars. But zero replies. Huh?

But yeah, ignore the stars.

Cheers,
Geoff

All that rating stuff is a way to make the youngsters feel important.

The web asks you to rate stuff all the time.


Demographically those under 30 do it about 10 times more than us full-grown adults...

I've never rated a thread. I thought there was just an "approval" button. If enough people hit the approval button, then 1 star appeared. If MANY people hit the approval button, then more stars appeared.

Guess I need to read up on the ole TDPRI manual.

I kind of figured the same :oops: ...

Now that I know what the stars mean, I guess I'm with the OP (not that I really care, though).

well the stars have come out in full force now.....

well the stars have come out in full force now.....

Yeah, someone has certainly cluttered up the Bad Dog thread list with all of those stars.
Too much time on their hands, perhaps? :smile:

must be a retired kindergarten teacher...

Hey, last night before I went to bed I was reading a thread here and all of a sudden these little magnifying glasses started showing up beside certain words.

What was up wit dat?


No- I wasn't drinking. :lol:

must be a retired kindergarten teacher...

:lol:

All that rating stuff is a way to make the youngsters feel important.

The web asks you to rate stuff all the time.


Demographically those under 30 do it about 10 times more than us full-grown adults...

Scary, but true. Those are all about marketing too.

"Oooh! I must be important! They want my opinion!"

My generation is a bunch of suckers. I wish to defect to the 35+ crowd (while keeping my chronological age).

Newtwanger forget the stars, here's your thread score. :mrgreen:

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I always figured that if people thought a thread turned out real good then it would grow into a five star. I thought they needed time to grow.

I once started a thread here that got 5 stars. But zero replies. Huh?

But yeah, ignore the stars.

Cheers,
Geoff


That's like when Fonzie looks to comb his hair, and he doesn't. I've seen posts that were so "perfect" I didn't even dare comment on them. I genuinely didn't feel qualified to comment, or certainly didn't feel worthy to be the first to comment. There are some really remarkable souls that post here and unfortunately I'm not one of them. :wink:

There's nothing gutless about rating a topic without commenting. Some subjects are just mindless rambling. A reply offers an opportunity for more mindless rambling. I'd rather report a thread than assign it a single star. If I see a 5 star thread that is 2-3 people in self congratulatory mode, shilling for one another over something I may take 'em down a notch, tho.

A single star is not good, in my mind. It is like a single star restaurant in a small town. If the people at the newspaper really hate you, they give you a half star.

I didn't know you could rate a post.

But it beggars the question - why?



Sorry, what was this thread about? - ah, yes... bean counting.

But...can you vote more than once?

apparently not

I didn't know you could rate a post.

But it beggars the question - why?



Sorry, what was this thread about? - ah, yes... bean counting.


At one time it might've offered a hurried member a means of selecting a few posts to read, when there wasn't time to read more.

I'm afraid you're right. Someone is assigning single stars at random to a lot of other posts, because he feels aggrieved that someone has been rating his posts as poor. Now the waters are so roiled, some busy people will skip reading TDPRI altogether.

How could anyone seriously assign a Marty Stuart thread at less than 4 stars.
I mean, really? :roll: Being against Marty Stuart is like being against fresh air and clean water.

For the record- I have never assigned a thread one star.

I figure if someone responds then the thread is a success. It's a discussion forum, right? :smile:

I've been a TDPRIer for, oh, ten years, and I've yet to pay any attention to how many stars were given to a thread...

Tim

I turned them off -- for some forums not all. I want to see what the response is.