Originally Posted by attorney28
cblaisd, with all respect, my personal opinion is that you are wrong. As the name of the feature already indicates, it is the thread rating feature, not the "I like you" or "I don't like you" feature.
I am not sure how one rates a "thread" absent some evaluation of the components of a thread -- the quality of the posts therein and the quality of the posters, in the opinion of the one rating. How would you rate a thread otherwise without all reference to these things?
I am curious to know why you seem to want to defend that sort of use of the feature.
There are posters, imo, whose posts I don't think much of in general. As do you, I suspect. That's one component of "thread rating" (and it's one that all of us do informally every time we read FT).
And even if, as you say, the use of the feature to say "I like (dislike) this poster" was a "legitimate" use,
Please do note all the other reasons that I believe are "legitimate" uses, above. Absent definitive guidelines for rating (and, again, how could those be enforced?) thread ratings have only entertainment value.
what good does it do for Flyertalk to allow the use of the feature to do that? How does it make Flyertalk better if a group of people uses the feature to say "I don't like this poster"?
I think one could say the same about "I don't like this post." Same difference, imo.
I don't really have a dog in this hunt, I just think that there is much ado being made over little.
But we disagree
