New Rating System

[Lecic]

What do you guys think of the new rating system on the forums? I love it. I especially like the "bad spelling" one.

 

[der_scheme]

"Insane" should be renamed to "Flamy", "Disturbing", "Provocative" or something similar. It is obviously* considered negative, but the word "insane" doesn't necessarily have a negative connotation for me.
Otherwise the system's pretty cool, since it finally allows for distinctions.

* visit someone's profile page

 

[Lecic]

"Insane" should be renamed to "Flamy", "Disturbing", "Provocative" or something similar. It is obviously (visit someone's profile page) considered negative, but the word "insane" doesn't necessarily have a negative connotation for me.
Otherwise the system's pretty cool, since it finally allows for distinctions.

That's a good point, that I didn't think of. I mean, most people think "crazy people" when they hear insane, but others might think of something along the lines of "woh that cool thing you did was totally insane".

 

[Ithirahad]

The rating system seems silly (A simple 'dislike' button in addition to the 'like' would be just as good) but some of the stuff is neat, I guess... Particularly 'bad spelling.'

 

[Nauvran]

Would be nice to have them grouped in the positive, negative, neutral groups.
and yes, there are a bit many rating buttons.

 

[Lecic]

Oh the irony. Someone disagrees with the new rating system , and yet they used the system to show it.

 

[ToyotaSupra]

I dislike it, I agree with Ithirahad a simple like/dislike would do.

 

[Jaaskinal]

I think that this is a good system, but I still agree with a lot of what has been said above. I think we should pretty much just have buttons for likes, dislikes, for when someone is helpful, for when someone is says something unrelated, and when someone is having difficulties spelling. Like Nauvran said, I think they should be organized a bit better, put into groups, if we keep all these buttons I think it should be laid out in such a way where there's more space between buttons that you would use for separate intentions, i.e. grouping the like, agree, and disagree buttons all together just a bit to the left of the bad spelling and insane buttons, which are to the left of the 'useless fluff' buttons.

 

[gravypod]

The trolls are the only people who will enjoy this.

http://imgur.com/LZpmHAe

 

[Keptick]

As I wrote in the forum features thread:

"The rating system is an interesting idea. I really don't agree with those negative ratings, though. Abusing such a system to completely destroy a user's rep is extremely easy. That's also why most forums don't have them and why facebook doesn't have a "thumbs down" button.


Other than that, I like it! But KEEP IT POSITIVE , don't get negativity in there"

 

[Megacrafter127]

Abusing such a system to completely destroy a user's rep is extremely easy.

An easy way to solve that issue would be to give the poster the ability disable the rating system for some of his posts, or give moderators the ability to disable certain functions(such as bad spelling for a perfectly correct post) if using that function on that post can only be abuse and has already been abused to degrees.

 

[Ithirahad]

Or, alternatively, we could do away with the whole 'reputation system' idea altogether... Then it wouldn't matter how many of your posts some idiot decided to 'dislike.'

 

[Megacrafter127]

we could do away with the whole 'reputation system' idea altogether

I agree with you there, though IMO the variety of rating buttons should remain.

 

[therimmer96]

is this really needed? He literally flamed every post in the thread, for no reason what so ever

 

[Incap]

I'm on the side lines with this new system. On one hand, we can get a more indepth look at how ideas and posts are received around here, but on the idea hand, it could be used as a flame tool, or since it actually tells you who has given you the rating, could cause animosity between the two involved. I'd like to think people can be more mature than that around here, but the world isn't so rosy.

Also, I think 'Insane' might have an ambiguous meaning, like if I think a ship design is insane, I'd rate it using the Insane button. Or if I think an idea is insane, I'd do the same. I don't think it's meant to carry any negative or positive connotations.

 

[Viridis00]

Quite frankly, I think this is all a bit excessive.

A reply to a post would be better than just a little symbol at the bottom, and a lot more meaningful to a discussion. Let your words speak for you, not a little icon. Plus, the rep bar thing can lead to crap where a post is evaluated on who posted it, not what is posted. I've seen it a lot through the years on numerous forums where new members circlejerk around the guy who has big rep to fit in. One thing I really liked about this forum is that post count isn't displayed on a user's handle (except on profile page) and avoids the whole situation above. If we adopt the like/dislike thing, it pretty much just leads eventually to community censorship in a sense. Just because someone has a negative opinion doesn't mean they shouldn't speak it. Let's not make this a rubber playpen, hugbox, etc. whatever analogy floats your boat.

I'm not so big on the like button either, but I see no reason to get rid of it, because in all honesty it does more good than harm. But I wouldn't really mind if it was gone either.

 

[der_scheme]

Just because someone has a negative opinion doesn't mean they shouldn't speak it.

I guess that's why "Disagree" isn't a negative, but a neutral rating. (If that's what you meant.)

 

[ImperialDonut]

I uh... I find this whole system a bit overbearing tbh. I'd like half of these options, but all of this is a bit much, social media frenzy much?

 

[Viridis00]

I guess that's why "Disagree" isn't a negative, but a neutral rating. (If that's what you meant.)

Didn't realize that, but the whole system itself just is pretty pointless really. In my opinion it's worse than one-liner posts and doesn't add anything beneficial to the site.

social media frenzy much?

That's a good way of putting it.

 

[ToyotaSupra]

I uh... I find this whole system a bit overbearing tbh. I'd like half of these options, but all of this is a bit much, social media frenzy much?

I was thinking this. I hate to be rude, but it feels more like Bebo than a videogame forum. As a mod, do you have any power to suggest turning some of them off? Maybe a poll would be good first, though in case the majority of the fandom likes it.