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tastyspleen.net / Re: Ratings Jump of the Week
on August 14, 2013, 02:54:30 PM by X7
Every post i make is down rated by rk / animosity... just flip through my rates, it doesn't matter what i say, he will rate it as racist ignoramus or flamebait
When the latest ratings experiment went online, I'd attempted to monitor this sort of thing, and would suspend someone's ability to impart negative and/or positive ratings, if a pattern emerged where their ratings clearly didn't match the content of the posts.
However, that level of vigilance faded pretty fast. I still tend to read the forms via: http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?action=recent
And ratings don't show at all in that mode. Thus I often miss seeing how they're being used from day to day.
Based on the recent activity in this thread, if I kept to the original policy, half a dozen folks would presumably lose their negative-rate capability for awhile.
Which leads us to:
i didn't complain to anyone and never to Ely because i really don't care. Its all fun / war games.
From the outset, my assumption has been that if the rating system didn't ultimately turn out to be particularly useful, the next best result would be if it were to somehow end up being slightly fun.
I don't know how long the experiment will last, but if we're heading into the stage where it's predominantly just goofiness, then I guess so be it. I don't see having the time to keep close tabs on it.