New Feature Test: Post Ratings

[Dalton63841]

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.

I agree that there should be something to come from the votes...However I can't agree that the current system provokes short quick responses. No matter how many posts you have you can't view Marketplace until you have been here 6 months. I rarely post here, but I have gone way over the minimum number of posts, and I still have another month to wait.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

I agree that there should be something to come from the votes...However I can't agree that the current system provokes short quick responses. No matter how many posts you have you can't view Marketplace until you have been here 6 months. I rarely post here, but I have gone way over the minimum number of posts, and I still have another month to wait.

Rarely? I wouldn't consider over5 posts a day rare

 

[rhett7660]

How long are you going to test this before it becomes official and stays?

 

[Applejuiced]

Update. it started working again for me on IE9 and I didnt do anything.
Maybe something the Admin updated on their end.

Edit.
Ok 15 minutes after this post it started kicking me back to the main forum section again
I give up

 

[JML42691]

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I feel that people shouldn't be able to rate their own posts.

 

[MrMac'n'Cheese]

Suggestion:

Have it show who plus'ed you and who neg'ed your each post.
I've seen it implemented in other forums, or just allow a thank you button type of thing, no negative option allowed please.

People have the cojones to neg you anonymously, but if their name was attached to the negative rep/karma, whatever you wish to call it, it would be a vastly different story.

Otherwise I'm for the removal of this seemingly annoying feature, faceless jerks can team up to negative rep your posts, and before you know it its war to neg' each other.



EDIT

How long are you going to test this before 'it is permanetly tossed in favor a better, less abusable alternative'?

 

[R94N]

People have the cojones to neg you anonymously, but if their name was attached to the negative rep/karma, whatever you wish to call it, it would be a vastly different story.

I disagree. I still think people would vote down posts anyway. I don't think a lot of users are that bothered about the ratings system or even use it anyway.

Otherwise I'm for the removal of this seemingly annoying feature, faceless jerks can team up to negative rep your posts, and before you know it its war to neg' each other.

I haven't seen that happening at all, it might be happening a little more in the support areas of the forums where there are perhaps more newbies and trolls but at least in the places where I frequent (i.e. community discussion mostly) I haven't seen any votes made at all, never mind ' vote wars'. That said, I have seen it on other sites, but that's different altogether.

 

[xUKHCx]

With IE 8 if I vote it get kicked back to the main forum page, if I press back I get the first error message below, the forum isn't displayed. If I then reload the page nothing happens and after a while I go to close the tab and the second error message appears.


It sometimes affects other forum pages I go to but will usually clear up after a while. I just have to remember not to vote while I am on IE8.

 

[Weaselboy]

This thread discussing Steve Jobs behavior is a good example, IMO, of why we do not need this feature. Read over the posts. Most any post that dares to say anything bad about Jobs is downvoted hard. Many seem to be well thought out posts that make valid points, but just got downvoted anyway.

Don't turn this into a Reddit-like place where those that do not agree with the hive get shunned.

 

[iStudentUK]

This thread discussing Steve Jobs behavior is a good example, IMO, of why we do not need this feature. Read over the posts. Most any post that dares to say anything bad about Jobs is downvoted hard. Many seem to be well thought out posts that make valid points, but just got downvoted anyway.

Don't turn this into a Reddit-like place where those that do not agree with the hive get shunned.

I agree. Fortunately, I haven't seen anyone moaning about low ratings. I hope most people ignore the ratings, I know I do. I don't want half of all posts becoming "who rated me down?!"

 

[Weaselboy]

I agree. Fortunately, I haven't seen anyone moaning about low ratings. I hope most people ignore the ratings, I know I do. I don't want half of all posts becoming "who rated me down?!"

I think the reason we aren't seeing much comment on the downvotes yet is they really are not being used for anything yet. Tag the vote total by users names though and watch the fun begin.

Arn>> I know you have not committed to doing this yet with the voting, I was just using this as an example. Go hang out in the comments sections of Reddit for a while and you will see the effect "voting" has on member participation. Thanks for allowing us input on this.

 

[iBlue]

This thread discussing Steve Jobs behavior is a good example, IMO, of why we do not need this feature. Read over the posts. Most any post that dares to say anything bad about Jobs is downvoted hard. Many seem to be well thought out posts that make valid points, but just got downvoted anyway.

Don't turn this into a Reddit-like place where those that do not agree with the hive get shunned.

I felt a sense of irony up-voting your post.

 

[Weaselboy]

I felt a sense of irony up-voting your post.

Upboats all around!

 

[0098386]

It has probably been suggested already, but could we just remove the negative votes? It seems daft to punish people for either being too level headed in a room full of crazies, or a crazy in a room full of level headed(s).

It's funny now how sane the Games subforum is (given how it used to be), but during that transition we're seeing a whole new breed of superfan that will cast fire and brimstone at anyone who talks bad about Apple.

 

[Surely]

Are people even using the post ratings? I haven't used it, and don't pay attention to it at all.

Here's the perfect thread that you would think it would be used in, but not a single vote has been cast (I'm sure that will change as of this post ): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1150636/

 

[rdowns]

Are people even using the post ratings? I haven't used it, and don't pay attention to it at all.

Here's the perfect thread that you would think it would be used in, but not a single vote has been cast (I'm sure that will change as of this post ): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1150636/

How would you know? Maybe 5 voted up and 5 down so all you see is zero.

That said, I still think it's ridiculous and hopefully will be gone when new site design launches "any time now".

 

[miles01110]

I don't really care anymore. It's visually unintrusive enough that it's easily ignorable and nobody seems to be paying attention to it in the first place (including, thankfully, the forum administration). If there is going to be some sort of sorting by post rating I would hope that it will be optional and opt-in instead of forced on everyone.

 

[Surely]

How would you know? Maybe 5 voted up and 5 down so all you see is zero.

That said, I still think it's ridiculous and hopefully will be gone when new site design launches "any time now".

Sure, that's a possibility, but the trend seems to be that most are agreeing with my post. There's even a +1 thrown in there. Not a single post that is really against mine. Not a very polarizing thread, y'know?

I don't see the utility in it either.

 

[kainjow]

The buttons are still showing up when viewing a private message, although the images are broken.

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And for those who missed it with the new site redesign:

 

[Raid]

If this system will be kept, I think the code should include a lock for rating your own posts. There's nothing quite as lame and self serving as '+1'ing your own posts....


.... Permit me to demonstrate!

 

[darkplanets]

I dont particularly approve of this feature, especially if it emulates other communities implementations (Ex. Reddit). Anonymous voting is a poor choice if/when voting has implications upon forum experience. As others have mentioned there's a few workarounds; you could remove neg voting, or list who voted what. You shouldn't be able to upvote your own post.

As an aside, another feature I'd like to see is a compiled number of ignores; not names per-say but just a tally of how many people ignore you or others.

 

[xUKHCx]

I'm getting the IE error again whereby I get kicked back to forums.macrumors.com

I have reset my browser (IE8) and it is still not working.

Any one else on IE is it working for you?

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

Any one else on IE is it working for you?

Working on IE7 running Vista

 

[mscriv]

I'm getting the IE error again whereby I get kicked back to forums.macrumors.com

Any one else on IE is it working for you?

The same problem is happening to me on my work system running IE7. In fact, ever since the last update I've lost all clickable shortcuts in the text editor. I don't normally use the post rate features, but I tested it when I saw your post.

 

[-aggie-]

I'm getting the IE error again whereby I get kicked back to forums.macrumors.com

I have reset my browser (IE8) and it is still not working.

Any one else on IE is it working for you?

For me, IE8, doesn't kick me anywhere, but it does act differently as far as the rating is concerned. Before if I upped the rating and then downed the rating it would back to zero, if it started at zero. I upped your post and it went to 1, but when I downed it, it went to -1.