Thread Rating System

[Oni]

I really dislike the new thread rating system. I feel like it's just a tool for micro-aggression in the Edition War, that has the potential to dampen conversation.

 

[Morrus]

It's not new. It's been part of vbulletin for as long as I can remember (nearly 10 years, I think). I think you're just noticing it because the rating graphic somehow became a bit screwed up recently. The graphic is usually less intrusive.

 

[Oni]

It's not new. It's been part of vbulletin for as long as I can remember (nearly 10 years, I think). I think you're just noticing it because the rating graphic somehow became a bit screwed up recently. The graphic is usually less intrusive.

LoL, i can honestly say I've never noticed it before. Let me rephrase, now that I've noticed it, I don't care for it.

 

[jonesy]

It's not new.

It's only active on the Pathfinder forum and New Horizons. And I am sure it wasn't active on the Pathfinder forum before.

 

[Morrus]

I haven't done anything to thread ratings, so it's unlikely that it's changed in any way recently.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

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[jonesy]

Actually, now that I checked, it's active on News, Subscriber Content, New Horizons, Pathfinder, EN Publishing, Your Reviews, Gamers Seeking Gamers, Conquest, and Archive-threads (that last one's a curious one, aren't those supposed to be locked?).

I guess I just never noticed before.

 

[TerraDave]

I have noticed it before...thought it was pointless...forgot about it...but something did change to make it more prominent.

If you are looking to ditch something, I would put it on the top of the list.

 

[Lwaxy]

It did change recently I think, there was no ability to rate a thread in any forum I ever noticed. And I dislike the feature myself for all the same reasons, plus it might discourage new members to post threads.

 

[Mark CMG]

The value of the XP system is that those who wish to praise a post do so on the record. When I see a post has been given some XP, I can see if it is getting praise from a range of folks with a variety of general views and playstyles or if it is being praised by a handful of likeminded individuals (there are a couple of groups of folks who tend to pat one another on the back with regular frequency). The thread rating system allows for folks to anonymously target threads with which they disagree whether those reasons are rational or not, supported by fact or evidence or not, and can even be motivated by the very reasons that would get a post amounting to the same thing a warning from moderators (perhaps even a thread ban). In the best case scenarios it let's folks promote a thread without actually adding anything to the discussion through their rating and in the worst case scenario it allows folks to target threads by giving bad ratings when their only motivation could be seen as thread-crapping or edition-warring. In short, the thread rating systems has few "pros" and many "cons."