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    New Feature: Rate Posts

    In a move we will almost surely regret, AST has activated the post rating feature on the message board. So now, when something someone wrote makes you laugh out loud, or contains the answer to a question you've wondered about for years, you can click the button and let that person know you appreciate them! And yes, you can also voice your disapproval with the button. Just, please, don't abuse it... or each other.

    Have at it, taste-makers!




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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    If anything, we can hope this will lead to less "flaming" and more "depression" (which is quieter).



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    k i voted
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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    We should be able to rate our own posts. Isn't self-satisfaction and masturbation the reason the internet was invented in the first place?

    (Plus it makes it less obvious when I go through the Writing news jokes thread and give everyone a minus except me...)
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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    No offense to rob, but I think this is a good time to lock the politics thread.



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Can we somehow monetize this Ratings system?



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Ugh, as long as this doesn't evolve into some kind of post-popularity contest



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Is there a "Rate All" option?



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Have at it, taste-makers!

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    Doesn't this tell you that this is a bad idea?
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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    This will end in tears.



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    I hate this.



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    This is great. Now when someone tries to convince me I'm not hated, I'll have proof that they're wrong.
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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Okay... clearly, there's a combination of passive aggression and jokey-ha-ha attitude that's making the thread rating really annoying. Can we add the option to show who said what? That way, people won't be so blasé and you'll know who was serious and who was joking, presumably.



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Quote Originally Posted by aenemaTron View Post
    Okay... clearly, there's a combination of passive aggression and jokey-ha-ha attitude that's making the thread rating really annoying. Can we add the option to show who said what? That way, people won't be so blasé and you'll know who was serious and who was joking, presumably.
    If we're going to identify people who indicated they liked/disliked things, then why not add a little place for comments by the people as well?

    In that case, we're back to where people simply express their approval/disapproval in their own reply to a post, which I think is a perfectly acceptable mechanism.

    I don't really like the idea of rating posts, and don't see how one can make it better. For sites like Metafilter, which is kind of a user-based BoingBoing that seeks to find and publish neat stuff, liking/disliking posts makes sense because that determines what gets foregrounded on the site.

    For what I (am reluctant to) call a community like AST, it seems like a way of people being, as you say, passive-aggressive.

    I appreciate the site owners/moderators trying out new stuff, and working to improve the user experience and everything (god bless ya), I just don't personally feel that adding the capability of rating posts is the way to go.

    Just my two cents.



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    Can't we just dispense with all this shit and agree that all of Jenny's posts are awful and all of Jixby's are awesome?
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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Rate me.
    Rate me, my friend.
    Rate me.
    Rate me, again.



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Quote Originally Posted by Berliner View Post
    Rate me.
    Rate me, my friend.
    Rate me.
    Rate me, again.
    Rate jokes are never appropriate or funny.



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Quote Originally Posted by Berliner View Post
    Rate me.
    Rate me, my friend.
    Rate me.
    Rate me, again.
    If I could give more than one + I would.



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    Re: New Feature: Rate Posts

    Taking out the negative was a good idea. Good going, guys.



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    Wait a minute! You didn't take out the negative! You just blacked it out!

    I AM FUCKING ON TO YOU.



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