Admin Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 The rating system has been installed again. Hopefully this optimized version will not put the same strain on the server as the old version did. Unfortunately all old ratings are gone, so you all get a fresh start
Victoria Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 THANK YOU!! RWG Donation coming up! EDIT: One can rate one's one posts now. Glitch? EDIT #2: The ratings now "jump" when you hover your mouse over them. I almost gave Admin a spam.
rckh Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Woo! Good Good!! I miss that rating system! Thx Admin! Best Regards, Raymond
scoobs1971 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Yesssssss, finally I can rate every post again, LOL Thnx, Admin!
Admin Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Posted January 30, 2008 EDIT: One can rate one's one posts now. Glitch? Yes. Fixed now.
Corgi Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Wonderful! I love it when we can rate each other's wrist-check posts, it really bonds everyone together and strengthens the forum community spirit in my opinion.
Dani Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 if people only use the rating system when its useful to do so it will maybe not put so much strain on the server. some people give ratings to every post that is not useful,you get my drift. Cheers
Victoria Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Yes. Fixed now. Thanks, Admin! Dani suggests that giving ratings puts a strain on the system? Is this true? Perhaps a clarification, since perhaps some people don't know how it works. @Chieftang: I'm already hard at it!
HauteHippie Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Unfortunately all old ratings are gone, so you all get a fresh start. That's OK, Victoria will spend the time re-rate all the old threads and bring everything back to where it was.
Stephane Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 I wonder if I like that rating system. When rating is positive it's fine, when negative it starts fights (as I saw a minute ago in the wrist check thread). I'm not sure if this is a nice feature. My 2 cents.
Victoria Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 When rating is positive it's fine, when negative it starts fights (as I saw a minute ago in the wrist check thread). Don't worry, the ratings system's benefits far outweigh the negatives. All it takes is maturity, which 99% of the time, forum members exhibit.
Pix Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Thx Admin ! On the other hand, this system avoids useless posts (negative or positive). It should someow help the database to be lighter.
capice Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 (edited) mille grazi Admin but where are mine????? Edited January 30, 2008 by capice
lanikai Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 IMHO "rating" or "grading" is it the same? Is it a popularity contest? Is it a "trade" of compliments? Does it give a feeling of control or power to be able to "not grade" or grade everything? When someone grades almost every post .. does it give members the "feeling" of .. what? When stars can be given out randomly does this then become in appreciation or a matter of acceptance into a group or group of members? Just some questions I ask myself as to what is the rating or grading system really do.. does it create negatives or does it "motivate" the positive, in the overall information process of the forum ? Does it enhance the social significance of: be with us or be without us ? Does it enhance Politics or is it just a fast way to compliment ; is the star warranted or just a "feel me" signature? Just a way of massive fast posting? Intent and purpose .... Short fall .... ????? Who knows.. everyone has their own intent and purpose.. i guess time will tell if we are here to be graded ... appreciated .. just be apart of the whole.... or whatever.. maybe it's about replicas..... ...... Just food for thought
capice Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 help.... I don't see the ratingicons, how can i find these , or are they only visible in other posts then my own? sorry
Stephane Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Thx Admin ! On the other hand, this system avoids useless posts (negative or positive). It should someow help the database to be lighter. Pix, Sorry to disagree here. No posts are useless, all are welcome. Don't you like when they tell you how great your photos are? More reactions are what we all are looking at... "stars" or "wtf" are not making this place nice and friendly at all. Again...only my two cents. Stephane
Admin Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Posted January 30, 2008 @capice You can only rate others posts. @all The rating system puts several different kind of "loads" on the server. Instead of giving you a very technical explanation (unfortunately, this is very complicated ) I'll just say that the older version of the rating system was not so tightly integrated into the forums built-in caching system, while this version is supposed to be better. But a fast board is more important than ratings, so if there are no improvements or if the system start using lots of system resources, it will be removed again.
Pix Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Pix, Sorry to disagree here. No posts are useless, all are welcome. Don't you like when they tell you how great your photos are? More reactions are what we all are looking at... "stars" or "wtf" are not making this place nice and friendly at all. Again...only my two cents. Stephane Sure St
Dani Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Just dont rate posts like your on speed then the server will be ok i think. Cheers,
KB Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 I couldn't help but notice that everyone in this thread has a rating, so I'm posting here to see if I can get one too. Ken
KB Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Well I suppose I asked for it. Ken BTW please excuse me for the rest of the day I have to spend it deleting all of chieftang's posts
scoobs1971 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Intent and purpose .... Short fall .... ????? Who knows.. everyone has their own intent and purpose.. i guess time will tell if we are here to be graded ... appreciated .. just be apart of the whole.... or whatever.. maybe it's about replicas..... ...... Just food for thought You have a valid point here. Although the rating system can be very motivating it also has its drawbacks. Not only can it provoke people with the 'spam', 'disagree' and the 'wtf' signs, it also facilitates a certain laziness. I don't think an 'agree' would help any discussion further, but only make it a kind of contest who's more right or more wrong. A disagree rating without motivation can be very rude in my opinion. Most of the time I use the rating system in the wristchecks and only to pics or reps that I really like. I prefer that over repeating other peoples pictures and cluttering the thread.
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