Originally Posted by ropmot141
What about restricting rating ability to "Premium" (ad-free) FT subscribers, and also with a minimum post count (e.g. 500).
Certainly possible in the admin options in vBulletin.
More of an audit trail would be created, thus allowing investigation if necessary.
I still fail to see how an audit trail or investigation of who gave what rating and for which threads is of any use to anyone. The fact remains is that each user can only give one vote to any thread rating. Those decrying "abuse" are probably taking things a little too seriously or personally. People voting 1 star out of 5 on a thread could be doing it for any number of reasons, as one of the posters pointed out above.
Also, reactivating user voting could be useful - but even on a personal basis (i.e. the rating each person sees for someone would solely be the rating that they alone have given the person) - i.e. I may like to rate a particular user highly (or low) for future reference if I encounter another of their posts. E.g. someone is rude or unhelpful enough for me to want to note it, and then needs some information the next month which might take 10 minutes to find, I'd know not to bother.
I don't think this one is technically possible in vBulletin. By the way, you're talking about the "user reputation" feature which is a separate function and could be the topic of a separate thread.
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