Sijun Forums :: View topic - Erm, I don't understand this rating thingy.

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Okay, I just gave someone a 4, however, their average rating was about 4. Why then, do they only have 1 star highlighted???

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 2:43 am

because the grey star isn't a star, it's just a slot for a star you could have

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 2:44 am

hence

Your Rating Total Votes Weighted Score
[3 stars, 2 grey stars] 28 3.21

Bugscratch · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 4:27 am

This whole rating system is plain unnecessary. Seeing how some people got rated I don't think it will be very valuable to decide whether someone's opinions are worth my time or not.
And I think it's also bad to have rated people since newcomers will not judge people's opinions on the same level, they will be biased because someone has more stars than someone else.
My opinion is turn the crap off.

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

It's not the grey stars but the empty ones! Come on Dhab, switch the colours round!

Also, I doubt people know the criteria by which people are to rate others. Just because you can do a kick-ass pic doesn't mean that you are necessarily a great member of the forum. There are plenty of other places people can go for great art.

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jcterminal · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 8:46 am

member ratings?

great.

another tool to help facilitate dick-swinging.

great.

sacrelicious · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 8:48 am

Somebody rated me a one star last I checked, which I didn't appreciate. Are they saying they think my art sucks, or that I have poor community spirit? I know what it's supposed to mean, but maybe not everybody does. Either way, the whole idea of letting members rate each other is like letting the inmates run the asylum.

Ian · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 8:55 am

I think it sucks somewhat. If you piss someone off, they're just gunna rate you low!

"Ooh, he he! I'll have the last laugh! Lowest Rating! BWU HA HA HA The world is MINE! All MINE!! BWU HA HA HA!!"

see my point?

Loki · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 10:10 am

sacreli: hmmm ... did my vote fix that?

Lunatique · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 10:12 am

Let's say we HAVE to keep the rating system, why don't we have two ratings? One for art, one for attitude?

Bugscratch · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 10:14 am

I currently consider rating everyone 1 star as a form of protest against this rating crap....would be neat to have a forum full of badly rated people.

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Oh yeah Lunatique care to elaborate why we would have to keep this system ? I still don't see how this could ever benefit the discussions here. Especially since everyone who has a bad rating can simply turn it off....
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synj · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 10:30 am

i think its stupid. its like some popularity contest. It always was, but now it's enforced almost heheheheheh

RAHHH FUCK YOU RATING SYSTEM

Jess · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 10:34 am

Binke · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 10:39 am

I EEAAAAAAAAT POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

SlightlyTwisted · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 3:29 pm

Since you can only rate each person once, Bugscratch, your little rating rampage won't really achieve anything...

If the ratings bother you so much, though, simply do what any smart person would do. Ignore them. They have absolutely no bearing on what people say, or how good/bad they draw, anyway... utterly meaningless things. They only effect the forum as long as people get caught up with them. Pay no attention to them, and they'll make no difference to the place.

balistic · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 3:34 pm

You guys realize you can turn that off, right?

Its in your profile.

burn0ut · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 3:42 pm

long ago

PandaX52 · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 3:57 pm

no more rating ssysstem for me!

hey, that diddn't work...what is the picture link for in your profile?

oh, it's in the "profile window"

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Waldo · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 4:53 pm

How in the world I got four stars is beyond me, but thanks anyway to anywho.

Let's see. Binke eats poo and gets five stars?

I'll be right back...

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 7:13 pm

lunatique, your words amaze me with their wisdom.

- i think we don't need a five star rating system to figure out someone's attitude
- if people judged people by their five star ratings, they'd efficiently avoid using and perusing their personal opinions and views and whatnot and just go with the flow

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

I got voted "Most Likely To Shave His Underarms for a Small Amount of Money at the Grand Canyon." You all can't touch that! Oh Yeah!

Freddio · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 7:58 pm

wayfinder · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2001 11:50 pm

please lose the ratings. this forum is not some kind of popularity contest.

it's always the same: as soon as someone starts to collect and publish data on any kind of community, there's people who try to define themselves through these numbers. it happens in IRC. when there's a stat bot. it happens here with the # of posts (hi faustgfx, hi ian

). it happens with the ratings, too. now while i can see the fun in comparing # of posts, this totally arbitrary and pointless rating system will only poison the forum. if you are searching for especially loved or hated persons, just continue checking out only 20+ post threads, dammit

ps we're not slashdot either. i'm so glad about that.

BooMSticK · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 1:10 am

heh... Here I find myself with 2 stars. Guess I was living in a fantasy world afterall??

EDIT> If the whole rating system wasn't anonymous as it is now I would have had a great deal more respect for it!

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Count Zero · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 6:09 am

Girls get all the ratings anyway...

faustgfx · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 6:33 am

yeah. what if i revealed my true gender to the public now?

Bugscratch · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 7:15 am

Oh well I said I know you can turn it off...but that only implies that you got a bad rating that you don't want people to see to the uninformed stranger...
Anyone wanna join me on the "Rate everyone 1 star" frenzy ?

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Oh yeah BTW it's especially useless to identify bad people since any "bad guy" can simply reregister with a new name and start anew...
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Totally · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 7:17 am

why do I still not have a rating? =\
hrmn.. maybe people really are indifferent toward me...

faustgfx · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 7:18 am

bug: i dunno, i've been throwing 1's around like there's no tomorrow already.

Bugscratch · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2001 7:21 am

OK faust so there's already two of us. Considering not too many here have more than 5 or 6 votes that should definitely have an impact