Post rating system
MayorofMonkeytown
Regular
I think that as the userbase grows it will become more important to be able to recongise who is making quality posts and who isnt.
Im not talking about some point gathering thing, but a simple good or bad feedback scale so even if people are lurkers and make one post a week they can get good feedback also.
It also means posters with a high postcount who arent contributing anything will be identified also and is a soft encouragement to post quality.
Im not talking about some point gathering thing, but a simple good or bad feedback scale so even if people are lurkers and make one post a week they can get good feedback also.
It also means posters with a high postcount who arent contributing anything will be identified also and is a soft encouragement to post quality.
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I need no encouragement to make 5 star rated posts. Excellence is a habit.
Very much so.
But if it goes from being a numerical measurable thing to a simple 'yes, maybe or no' sort of scale that would be less likely to happen.
Negativity gets downvoted
I suppose it could help new users figure out who knows their shit or not.
However, for any veterans or those of us who don't want to see the potential circle jerk in action, I would only tip my hat to the idea if displaying it was optional.
I do see it turning into a convoluted popularity contest like it was on the original board before the admins took it off.
There was no rating system on origional totse - they removed postcounts because that became a defacto ranking.
A simple scale that doesnt involve 'HERP UPVOTE ME' or 'IMMA DOWNVOTE YOU' and instead just has a simple 'green', 'yellow' or 'red' colour to indicate if the poster should be taken seriously will be needed when the forum grows.
I approve this message. Why do you need to know who is making "quality posts" ? Just read the shit. If you mean you want to read long-winded drawn out posts, then more power to you. Everyone doesn't want to write guides for everything. Some stuff you have to figure out/already know.
And besides, that's already implemented in a way. That's why there is a column which displays how many times a thread has been read. That should be good enough for you.
http://www.totse.info/bbs/showthread.php/20562-Break-An-Egg-With-One-Hand.
This is a prime example of Totse needing a guide for absolutely everything. If this is what you consider "quality contribution" you are seriously dense, and I will write an article on how to sharpen a pencil followed by one on how to take out the garbage.
Precisely why we need a rating system.
We got one guy here saying that this thread is terrible and insulting jehsiboi while the actual thread itself is nothing but positive replies.
With the rating system people the prevailing ratings would be the indicator of true popularity amongst the user base. Not a circle jerk - but a frame of reference for people to understand what is like and what is not.
Like im hanging out thinking im being awesome and then someone is pm'ing TDR about it MEANWHILE I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS GOING ON. A rating system is the way that people can get a feel; a tangible feel for how this is going to work.
Yes, there was.
Once UBB was swapped out with VBul, there was a post ranking system in place for a few months.
That said, if you're talking pre-VBul, you're right.
Users could only up or down vote, and leave short (non-post) comments on the post itself.
The rankings were shown both on the post and overall user ranking indicated by green boxes.
The same add-on should be available on the current VBul build we're using now.
TDR- I'm not 100% convinced it's needed, per say.
Could be useful, could be a steaming pile of shit.
However, I believe that after a while here, you tend to notice the good, constructive posters and therefore won't need a rating system.
For guides it may be a different thing as that sort of feedback is different from a thread created for discussion purposes - plus a thread can always improve or get worse depending on who posts there, in which case, refer to my 2nd line.
Now rating articles would be a good idea. Maybe a yes/no question at the end like "was this article useful" Some of the articles are quite long, and it would be useful to know before reading it all, if it was likely to be worth it. Possibly displayed using a 5 star thread rating or the like. I don't know if this would be possible or not.
As long as people who arent liked dont get all jelly and mad about it that wont happen.
And if it is a simple UNRANKED, NO WANK NUMBER - like theres 3 or so classes you can be, and you're either good, mediocre or bad. Too easy. Not enough room for a wankfest.
In my experience though people tend to be highly jellymad. I do anticipate high levels of jellitin from player haters when we implement the new system.