Ratings

[oleg]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
There is also some petty child that goes around and gives all newbies a rating of one for some reason that is beyond me.

OK. I think I am going overboard here so please delete/edit this post if appropriate.
Basicaly I think such behaviour is related to sexual disfunction directing a person for violating something he consider virgin. For example an individual with very few Posts in this forum.

[Erax]

Can't the admins find out who this is ? Has someone talked to them about it ?

[Azselendor]

Why don't they turn the rating systems off? that would be the easiest solution.

[Fyron]

The Moderators can not check Ratings, and the only forum admin (Tim Brooks) isn't too responsive to us lowly members.

But I do agree that the best solution would be to eliminate the Ratings mod altogether. It adds nothing beneficial to the forum.

[Taz-in-Space]

Taz just ATE his stars...try them they are tasty!

How do you eat your stars you ask?

1) go to profile
2) scroll down to the display Ratings question
3) check the NO option
4) save profile
5) enjoy no longer seeing stars!!!

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

It adds nothing beneficial to the forum.

Sure it does. It gives us all something to gripe about and boost our post count. See, if we didn't have the rating system then you wouldn't have as many Posts as you do.

But I for one, do not care about what my rating is. So I am not going to bother shutting it off.

[Gwaihir]

I think its kinda fun, actually. I started with a one-star rating (probably hit by that guy who was being a jerk, oh well), but I though "ooh, how exciting, i have a rating now!" and then it was ever so exciting when it went up to 2, and now, wonder of joyous wonders, its 3! oh boy! and if it ever goes down again, eh, so what, i don't really mind, except that then theres a chance it will go bak up, and i can be excited ALL OVER AGAIN!

edit:
Here's a post about ranks and rankings from a while back:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...3;t=006899;p=1

has a list of the ranks too, reprinted here for convenience:

# Posts = rank:
0 = Private
51 = Corporal
200 = Sergeant
400 = Second Lieutenant
600 = First Lieutenant
800 = Captain
1000 = Major
1250 = Lieutenant Colonel
1500 = Colonel
1750 = Brigadier General
2000 = Major General
2500 = Lieutenant General
3000 = General
3500 = National Security Advisor
4000 = Ruler of the World

hrm, given that i've edited all but about 10 Posts, and double, triple, and quadruple edited a few, if edits counted, i'd be a Sergeant by now. *sigh* it'll probably be another week and a half before i get 103 more Posts.

[ May 06, 2003, 05:58: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]