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New Feature Test: Post Ratings

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Years back I suggested a thanks button but it went nowhere. In truth I'm glad because it was flawed idea and so is this. Of all the things that could really use changing around here THIS is what we get? I really don't understand the point at all but I can certainly see some big drawbacks to it.

Firestarter had some good ideas here if it simply must stick around but I really hope it doesn't. I've watched it happen on other forums - it becomes a popularity contest more than anything useful, particularly if there are little to no controls with it.

P.S. The box surrounding the up/down buttons is baboon-ass ugly.
 
robbieduncan said:
What box? Not seeing one here (Firefox 4 on Windows Vista at work)
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Edit: and the worst thing is how they appear when a page is loading. Which on my slow connection here at work definitely is an issue...
 

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robbieduncan said:
What box? Not seeing one here (Firefox 4 on Windows Vista at work)
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Like this: BaboonAssUglyBox.png

I'm using firefox on Snow Leopard but Firefox's version number isn't correct so I'm not totally sure what what version I am running now. :eek: I'll do an update but I think it's recent within the last few weeks.

But I've just checked in Safari and the boxes aren't there. (ARG, I'm definitely not switching to Safari for that! :p)
 
Apart from in this thread, I've hardly seen the system in use. Perhaps I'm just not visiting the right boards? Does it seem to be popular?
 
iBlue said:
Like this: View attachment 283005

I'm using firefox on Snow Leopard but Firefox's version number isn't correct so I'm not totally sure what what version I am running now. :eek: I'll do an update but I think it's recent within the last few weeks.

But I've just checked in Safari and the boxes aren't there. (ARG, I'm definitely not switching to Safari for that! :p)
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I'm seeing that on Firefox 3.6.16 - latest version / Snow Leopard.
 
Doctor Q said:
Web-surfing baboons might not agree with your assessment, but I'm pretty sure humans would. Those boxes are not supposed to be there.
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The boxes were there for me under Firefox and I was under the impression they were supposed to be. However I was pleasantly surprised to find them no longer there last night, so this must be fixed :)
 
Doctor Q said:
Web-surfing baboons might not agree with your assessment, but I'm pretty sure humans would. Those boxes are not supposed to be there.
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:D

tristangage said:
The boxes were there for me under Firefox and I was under the impression they were supposed to be. However I was pleasantly surprised to find them no longer there last night, so this must be fixed :)
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It seems so. The boxes are gone. Now for the entire ratings system. :p
 
fwiw, here's some data from this news thread: https://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/26/android-jumps-past-ios-in-overall-u-s-smartphone-usage/

The top rated posts:

Macman1993
13 hours ago at 12:07 pm

Some will be bothered about IOS not being the most dominant. I personally don't care, I just want the best mobile OS.

Rating: 15 Positives / 2 Negatives

brendu
13 hours ago at 12:12 pm

One interesting thing to note. Apple held 25% of recent acquirers with 2 phone models. The iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. They are also on only 2 carriers, and have only been with Verizon for part of the time leading up to the march survey. Android however is on dozens of handsets and all four US carriers. I would say apple is doing amazingly well when you consider those specifics. I am not worried about iOS not having a larger chunk of the market, I am blown away that it has 25%.

Rating: 12 Positives / 0 Negatives

komodrone
13 hours ago at 12:39 pm

"...in total penetration" THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. yeah I signed up for an account just to post this.

Rating: 10 Positives / 0 Negatives

Eddyisgreat
13 hours ago at 12:15 pm

If the iPhone were buy one get two free as well then I bet those numbers would be different :D

Rating: 9 Positives / 1 Negatives

VanMac
13 hours ago at 12:09 pm

Competition is good :) Keeps Apple on their toes Don't need another MS Monopoly.......

Rating: 12 Positives / 4 Negatives

Slix
13 hours ago at 12:14 pm

iPhones are still better.

Rating: 12 Positives / 5 Negatives

supmango
13 hours ago at 12:12 pm

I really hope that Apple sees trends like this and realizes it's time to change their game plan. No more once a year phones. Time to kick the innovation level up a few notches. Time for over the air OS updates, over the air app installs, wireless syncing and everything else Android has offered for some time now.
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iOS does over the air app installs. Other than that, yes I agree that Apple needs to do those things. Oh, and I use Android because it's the only option on my carrier (its the least repulsive option anyway). But it sucks, and doesn't seem to be getting any better. I think the only reason it is seeing growth like it is is because of cheap hardware, and, as in my case, being the only real option on certain networks.

Rating: 6 Positives / 0 Negatives

Millah
2 hours ago at 11:13 pm

inevitable as android devices are available everywhere and in every price segment. remember, half of all American workers earn $505 or less per week.
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The funny thing is, almost every single Android owner I know are people who could care less about "smartphones," really don't know much about technology, and only bought one because it was very cheap or free when they upgraded, and they were told that it could "run apps like the iPhone." These are people who had cheap free phones before they upgraded. And realistically, the majority of people are like that. But when we compare the industry profit percentages, it paints a much different picture. Which goes to show that market share is irrelevant especially in the cell phone business where cheap free phones are dominant. Its going to be interesting when Apple tries to go after this segment. I'm sure they'll come up with something clever.

Rating: 5 Positives / 0 Negatives

Michael Scrip
12 hours ago at 01:13 pm

Deceptive Report... Let's not forget, Apple iOS encompasses more then just iPhones. If you included the iPad and iPod Touch which both run Apple iOS then Apple's market share is still ahead of Android.
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It's not *that" deceptive... they did include "US smartphone usage" in the headline. Here's why... Apple's smartphone is called "the iPhone" And then you've got "Android" which is a tons of phones from many manufacturers. When comparing smartphone numbers... it's the iPhone vs. many Android phones. You're right... if you wanna have a platform battle... iOS vs Android... you'd have to include iPods and iPads. But this is a comparison of phones...

Rating: 5 Positives / 0 Negatives

righttime
13 hours ago at 12:27 pm

Wow. A platform that is available on all four major carriers and has dozens of phones, passed the iPhone (which *just* became available on its second carrier) in overall usage. So I guess Google should be patting themselves on the back for this historic achievement.

Rating: 5 Positives / 0 Negatives
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There isn't a huge amount of activity, but take it for what it's worth. Also, I think this was before we fixed the IE issue. It should work in IE now.

arn
 
arn said:
komodrone
13 hours ago at 12:39 pm

"...in total penetration" THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. yeah I signed up for an account just to post this.

Rating: 10 Positives / 0 Negatives
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It saddens me that THIS got more votes than many actual substantial posts...
 
arn said:
It should work in IE now.
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Perhaps a little quick on the draw here but it isn't working for me. The boxes have gone but the actual voting buttons still take me back to the forum index page.

I have cleared my cache and logged out and back in again.
 
xUKHCx said:
Perhaps a little quick on the draw here but it isn't working for me. The boxes have gone but the actual voting buttons still take me back to the forum index page.

I have cleared my cache and logged out and back in again.
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What version of IE are you on?

arn
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
same with me. On IE7 running Vista

Edit: Now works! :)
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Works now for me too.
Win7 with IE9.
Had to log out of the forum, delete all cookies and restart the computer.
Then I logged back in and the arrows work without bringing me to the main forum section any more:)

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It was working fine for 15-20 and now started doing it again. I didnt log out or even closed the IE page I had open.
I dont know whats up, seems like its still buggy....
 
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So it's like Reddit now. Cooleo

Edit: To fix the boxes around the images in IE just use a little CSS
tagName img{
border: none;
}
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That should solve your woes there. IE likes to default the CSS border on images to visitable.
 
Arn,

May I ask if you feel this feature has been useful so far. I really like the concept of a post rating. But I feel like this doesn't bring any real value to the MR community.

Thanks,

:)
 
WillEH said:
Arn,

May I ask if you feel this feature has been useful so far. I really like the concept of a post rating. But I feel like this doesn't bring any real value to the MR community.

Thanks,

:)
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It would be useful if they you reached a certain amount of upvotes you can get into the marketplace too. That'll help with actual contributing users that don't post much. The current system provokes people to just post quick short responses to raise their post count.
 
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