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newtwanger · November 3rd, 2009, 08:22 AM

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.

barkley · November 3rd, 2009, 09:08 AM

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?

Jeff_K · November 3rd, 2009, 09:20 AM

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?

musicalmartin · November 3rd, 2009, 09:25 AM

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

Dirty Steve · November 3rd, 2009, 09:38 AM

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!

PhatBoy · November 3rd, 2009, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barkley

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

newtwanger · November 3rd, 2009, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirty Steve

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!

Uh, click on the arrow beside the rating

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

I don't make this crap up!

Nobody has done that to my thread (well except barkley doing it to this one

). I was reading the "tapping" thread and the "baseball" thread; both interesting with no negative comments. Both rated terrible....

tboy · November 3rd, 2009, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by musicalmartin

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.

Solution is easy. Just ignore things that don't look interesting to you.

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 10:25 AM

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

Dirty Steve · November 3rd, 2009, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newtwanger

Uh, click on the arrow beside the rating

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

I don't make this crap up!

Huh. How about that. I guess you're right.

I never really paid much attention to the stars before now. But I still like my rating system better

Dave Hicks · November 3rd, 2009, 10:34 AM

Oh, that's what the stars mean.

D.H.

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 10:37 AM

They don't mean anything. IMO

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

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newtwanger

Uh, click on the arrow beside the rating

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

I don't make this crap up!

Nobody has done that to my thread (well except barkley doing it to this one

). 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.

dalandan · November 3rd, 2009, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barkley

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?

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 10:43 AM

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

newtwanger · November 3rd, 2009, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chet

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).

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newtwanger

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

No, I mean the other ones.

Stuco · November 3rd, 2009, 10:48 AM

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

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

jumpnblues · November 3rd, 2009, 10:50 AM

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

E5RSY · November 3rd, 2009, 11:13 AM

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.

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 11:16 AM

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

) I reply to it.

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

emu! · November 3rd, 2009, 11:30 AM

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.

hannigan · November 3rd, 2009, 11:33 AM

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

woodman · November 3rd, 2009, 11:38 AM

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.

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 11:41 AM

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!

TDPRI · November 3rd, 2009, 11:44 AM

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.

Ben Harmless · November 3rd, 2009, 12:07 PM

I give it five thumbs up.

newtwanger · November 3rd, 2009, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TDPRI

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?

newtwanger · November 3rd, 2009, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woodman

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.

StuH · November 3rd, 2009, 12:28 PM

LOL

hannigan · November 3rd, 2009, 12:38 PM

So what does the little blue turnip mean?

boneyguy · November 3rd, 2009, 12:41 PM

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.

PennyCentury · November 3rd, 2009, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hannigan

So what does the little blue turnip mean?

Hannigan is hallucinating again?

Geoff738 · November 3rd, 2009, 01:00 PM

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

But yeah, ignore the stars.

Cheers,
Geoff

Mike Eskimo · November 3rd, 2009, 01:09 PM

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...

Telemarkman · November 3rd, 2009, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emu!

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

...

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

ROADMAN · November 3rd, 2009, 01:34 PM

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

kelnet · November 3rd, 2009, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ROADMAN

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?

ROADMAN · November 3rd, 2009, 02:13 PM

must be a retired kindergarten teacher...

chet · November 3rd, 2009, 02:13 PM

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.

November 3rd, 2009, 08:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
newtwanger Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Quebec, Canada Age: 45 Posts: 1,553 11 Photos	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.

November 3rd, 2009, 09:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
Jeff_K Tele-Meister Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Katy, TX Posts: 195 1 Photos	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? __________________ Mine goes to 12.

November 3rd, 2009, 10:25 AM	#9 (permalink)
chet Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Jersey Shore Posts: 10,894	Some people are...shall we say "not very nice". __________________ "I'm only livin' for the end of the week." -James Taylor

November 3rd, 2009, 10:37 AM	#12 (permalink)
chet Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Jersey Shore Posts: 10,894	They don't mean anything. IMO Like the guy said- have enough balls to say something if you've got something to say. __________________ "I'm only livin' for the end of the week." -James Taylor

November 3rd, 2009, 10:43 AM	#15 (permalink)
chet Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Jersey Shore Posts: 10,894	I put a 3 star vote on this thread and nothing happened. __________________ "I'm only livin' for the end of the week." -James Taylor

November 3rd, 2009, 09:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
barkley Tele-Meister Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Canberra Australia Age: 28 Posts: 254	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?

November 3rd, 2009, 09:25 AM	#4 (permalink)
musicalmartin Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK Age: 61 Posts: 1,156	I didnt even know what the stars were ,I assumed the number of hits .What waste of time .

November 3rd, 2009, 09:38 AM	#5 (permalink)
Dirty Steve Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Quarry Bay Posts: 441	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!

November 3rd, 2009, 10:34 AM	#11 (permalink)
Dave Hicks Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Northeastern Indiana Posts: 225	Oh, that's what the stars mean. D.H.

November 3rd, 2009, 10:48 AM	#18 (permalink)
Stuco Friend of Leo's Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: GA Posts: 4,230	Had to rate this thread a 1 star, couldn't help myself. Not because it's that bad, just because it's funny that you are so peeved by the ratings! __________________ -"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do" J. Garcia

November 3rd, 2009, 10:50 AM	#19 (permalink)
jumpnblues Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Midwest Age: 59 Posts: 1,914	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 __________________ jumpnblues "Heaven St." (Original Blues Instrumental): http://www.box.net/shared/static/z96atf0zn2.mp3 http://www.myspace.com/drbluezz

November 3rd, 2009, 11:13 AM	#20 (permalink)
E5RSY Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Austin, TX Age: 42 Posts: 646	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. __________________ "Out here in the middle, where the buffalo roam, they're puttin' up towers for your cell phone..." --Robert Earl Keen

November 3rd, 2009, 11:16 AM	#21 (permalink)
chet Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Jersey Shore Posts: 10,894	If the subject interests me I read it and if I have something to say about it(without getting into trouble ) I reply to it. That is- if the OP isn't on my Ignore List. __________________ "I'm only livin' for the end of the week." -James Taylor

November 3rd, 2009, 11:30 AM	#22 (permalink)
emu! Friend of Leo's Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Moderator 2B Posts: 2,364	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.

November 3rd, 2009, 11:33 AM	#23 (permalink)
hannigan Tele-Meister Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: sno couny washington Posts: 362	A gold star means good job, my brain says so.

November 3rd, 2009, 11:38 AM	#24 (permalink)
woodman Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mint Hill, NC Age: 63 Posts: 8,128	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. __________________ Truth is stranger than fact ... www.myspace.com/stragglerswing (Woody & the Stragglers - Western Swing/Roots-rock)

November 3rd, 2009, 11:41 AM	#25 (permalink)
chet Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Jersey Shore Posts: 10,894	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! __________________ "I'm only livin' for the end of the week." -James Taylor

November 3rd, 2009, 11:44 AM	#26 (permalink)
TDPRI Administrator Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: TDPRILAND Posts: 7,064 46 Photos	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.

November 3rd, 2009, 12:07 PM	#27 (permalink)
Ben Harmless Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Albany, NY US of A Posts: 4,348 13 Photos	I give it five thumbs up. __________________ "I think I'll go for the life of sin, followed by the last-minute, presto-change-o, deathbed repentance." - B. Simpson "...Because we all expect the truth, we must be the best of fools." - Stiff Little Fingers

November 3rd, 2009, 12:28 PM	#30 (permalink)
StuH Friend of Leo's Join Date: May 2006 Location: Yukon, Canada Age: 39 Posts: 2,191 19 Photos	LOL __________________ My music page http://www.soundclick.com/thrucoloredglass

November 3rd, 2009, 12:38 PM	#31 (permalink)
hannigan Tele-Meister Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: sno couny washington Posts: 362	So what does the little blue turnip mean?

November 3rd, 2009, 12:41 PM	#32 (permalink)
boneyguy Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: victoria b.c. Age: 51 Posts: 4,332	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. __________________ "Science doesn't prove, it probes." Gregory Bateson

November 3rd, 2009, 01:00 PM	#34 (permalink)
Geoff738 Tele-Afflicted Join Date: May 2007 Location: Toronto Age: 45 Posts: 1,146	I once started a thread here that got 5 stars. But zero replies. Huh? But yeah, ignore the stars. Cheers, Geoff __________________ A city built on rock 'n' roll would not be structurally sound.

November 3rd, 2009, 01:09 PM	#35 (permalink)
Mike Eskimo Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Detroit Age: 45 Posts: 1,472	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... __________________ Geeshie Wiley is my co-pilot

November 3rd, 2009, 01:34 PM	#37 (permalink)
ROADMAN Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: delta b.c. canada Age: 54 Posts: 2,207	well the stars have come out in full force now..... __________________ the blues had a baby and they called it Rock and Roll

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November 3rd, 2009, 02:13 PM	#39 (permalink)
ROADMAN Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: delta b.c. canada Age: 54 Posts: 2,207	must be a retired kindergarten teacher... __________________ the blues had a baby and they called it Rock and Roll

November 3rd, 2009, 02:13 PM	#40 (permalink)
chet Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Jersey Shore Posts: 10,894	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. __________________ "I'm only livin' for the end of the week." -James Taylor

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