Thread Rating
 

How many votes have been cast for the thread rating, that we may see a set of stars appear near the title of the thread in the thread listings?

Must be a low number - I have seen stars with 3 ratings (when you pass mouse over showing the number and average).

I just tried on this thread and it looks to be 2.

And I was about to post the same thing, it's two votes. I added my rating to the thread though. :)

FewMiles..

Is Thread Rating broken, or disabled? Why can I rate a thread, but not view what the rating of a thread is? Was it abused like user reputations?

thanks!

Yes thread rating was switched off fairly quickly due to abuse.

Some people making a big deal about "abuse", rather. In the end each person can only vote on a thread one time.

FewMiles..

Unless one were good with computers and found a way to manipulate the system, or forge something. Of course, I don't think most people would a) have the absurd idea to even think about something like that; b) would make the effort to try that just to harass someone else or act on some petty old grudges. So, hopefully, a purely hypothetical question (in the future).

Yet somehow, you managed. :)

Yep, I got reminded of people who are good with computers when I saw the word "Technology" somewhere on the left side...

Oh, I see! Kind of like I got reminded of people who spend all day every day racking up thousands of posts by trolling and making thinly-veiled accusations about other FT members while never contributing anything to the actual subject of miles and points when I saw the word “attorney” somewhere on the left side… :p

As was posted above, there were some people that abused the thread rating system and it was pulled, much like the reputation fiasco earlier in the year.

I believe this was the situation that caused the thread ratings to be pulled.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...irthday+thread

Some people were running around FT giving negative ratings to threads of people they didn't like and ruined it for the rest of us.

Was that a personal attack? I thought you already had the tireflock board for that kind of stuff and would tone it down a little here :confused:.

No comment :).

Tech is not the place for what is happening in here.

Don't do this again.