SoulAssassin
Diamond Member
This is my understand over the past few days of how the ratings logic works, please correct me if I'm wrong. Let's say someone posts a new thread, I think it's worthwhile and go it and give it a 5 star (Excellent) rating. Refresh the page and it will probably have 1 star (a rating of "poor"). If I couple other people give it 5 starts it might move up to a 2 or 3 star rating until enough people give it 5 stars at which point it actually becomes an "excellent" thread. Point being before it reaches that point it can have a terrible or poor rating in the same way that a more mature but unpopular thread that has been consistently been receiving one star ratings would have.
A more appropriate way to implement this would be to start all threads with a neutral rating (something akin to 2.5 stars though that would actually be confusing, perhaps -5 through +5). If it's a bad thread the ratings could be decreased to a lower or negative number or voted up. The current system makes it very hard to differentiate between a thread which has been given many negative votes and a system that has simply received few votes.
just my 2 cents...
A more appropriate way to implement this would be to start all threads with a neutral rating (something akin to 2.5 stars though that would actually be confusing, perhaps -5 through +5). If it's a bad thread the ratings could be decreased to a lower or negative number or voted up. The current system makes it very hard to differentiate between a thread which has been given many negative votes and a system that has simply received few votes.
just my 2 cents...
