Originally Posted by Mary2e
You just hit the nail on the head. Thread ratings is not for whether or not you like a poster. It's to rate the information in the thread. These people were being single starred just for posting, and it was by more than one person. How do I know? In order for the star to even show up it had to be more than 1 or 2 people rating it. I tested by giving 5 stars to a few of the threads. Again, I feel it was a small group of people running around and searching for the threads of a few people they didn't like.
No way... from some of the behaviors I've seen around here there is no doubt in my mind that people have multiple ids they have in their back pockets. There is no guarantee that the extra ids won't be used for this purpose. To ask the HOM to police this is asking too much, plus, there are some people with enough skills to hide their IP addresses or even redirect them to avoid being found out.
The greater community wasn't deciding - it was a group of about 5 or 6 people going after about 4 or 5 people they just didn't like.
And tivocommunity doesn't allow political or religious topics

. This is FT and has it's own quirks and RP has made it very clear he doesn't care what happens on other BBs.
I think this post should be nominated as Most Concise Post Explaining All The Reasons Why Thread Ratings and Reputation Were Turned Off And Why They Should Remain Off.
(Not that I personally care about this issue one way or the other; just saying...

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