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Zeus
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 00:02
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Wouldn't it be nice to have one of these for WIP and Program Announcements? I don't know how many times I have wanted to rate a thread and it would actually count for something.

Does anyone else agree?

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Satchmo
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 00:03
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Nope.

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Grandma
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 00:13
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Nah, from what i've observed from similar systems, people often rate based on their interests. The thread itselfs may be jolly good, informative and have no coffee jokes, but if 75% of the members aren't interested in guitar hero, it will be rated trash. Rating systems like that can be misleading and doesn't really serve a good purpose overall. If people learn to make correct titles on their threads, people who are interested will check it out no matter what rating it has.

My 3 pennys.

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The Nerd
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 00:20
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Haven't we been through this discussion atleast a 100 times before? hehe.

Anyway, I agree about what Grandma said, and also you may have people abusing it, like rating it trash just for the sake of it. There isn't really any need in a thread rating system if you ask me.

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BatVink
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 00:38
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Quote: "Haven't we been through this discussion atleast a 100 times before?"


yes

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Benjamin
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 00:59
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Point 8 of my advice thread gives you a very helpful strategy for taking advantage of a thread rating system.

.. Which is one of the reasons it wouldn't be a good idea.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 17:18
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Actually, just to act the Devil's advocate, there's a system that's used on the MSDN forum where you can rate a single post's usefulness with regards to the problem, it saves an awful lot of time when searching through threads to find a relevant post when you've got people like Ben making stupid posts...

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Benjamin
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 18:19
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Quote: "it saves an awful lot of time when searching through threads to find a relevant post when you've got people like Ben making stupid posts..."

I think someone's just mad because they can't compete with my humour.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 18:22
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Indeed, you can't compete with something that's nonexistent

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Benjamin
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 18:25 Edited at: 17th Oct 2007 18:34
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I actually wasn't referring to your brain, but in fact my humour.

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Zeus
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 19:02
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Benjamin's funnier Kentaree, face the facts.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 19:03
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Ok, I'll submit to that, I suppose even French people have some things going for them...

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Zeus
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 20:53
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Oh!!!

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Grandma
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 01:02
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Benjamin isn't French, he only plays one on TV.

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DrewG
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Which is one other thing that Kentaree wastes his/her life sitting in front of.

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Jess T
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 10:24
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Quote: "there's a system that's used on the MSDN"


I can guarantee you that the userbase of that forum is much more mature than that of this forum.

Unfortunatly.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 11:39
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@Drew: Mostly work actually, don't have much time for TV nowadays...

Jess, I must agree, but it does add to the personality of this forum, being serious 100% of the time isn't good either

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True, true

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