Originally Posted by CameraGuy
Indicates that Thread Rating was turned off due to the whining and hurt e-feelings. Randy STATED in the quote above and in a recent thread that he would like feedback from the TB on this issue. If he disabled the feature due to "abuse", why would he ever consider enabling it?
There was NO abuse. Only whining.
Actually, I don't recall the people who got the one-star treatment as complaining about it so I don't think it is right to say that they were whining.
Perhaps you are referring to this post which was made by AlanW:
I "one-starred" one of the birthday threads.
Go ahead, call me morally reprehensible, an *******, cluck your tongues and wag your fingers (or is that the other way around?) but while you do so, consider this:
The thread I rated with one star was a birthday thread. Those suck. Why? Because they aren't fair. Some people get tons of birthday wishes, some get a few, and they aren't based at all on the value of a person's contribution to FT. I got like half a dozen posts on my last birthday after I had to prompt somebody to post it in the first place.
Is that what you were referring to as "whining"? Somebody complaining that only six people wished him a happy birthday and he had to ask someone to start the thread?