New Feature: Message Rating System

I think there's gonna be a lot of 1's and 5's with very little 2-4's.Another thing I've seen that might work good is just a thumbs up or thumbs down. A post starts at a "0" and then each thumbs up gives it a +1 and each thumbs down gives is -1. You can tell how much people like a post by how far positive or negetive it goes.I don't think you should scrap the idea but I don't think a 1-5 rating system yields the best results.

Right now, everyone's rating that I have seen has been at a 10.0.It might as well not exist at all. Get on it already. Or go back to what it was if you ain't ready.This current thing is worthless. Do something.

Then just change it back to what it was before. It at least worked somehow.Oh, and I made an off-topic post here: Message 93But I was asking about a specific board function so I don't think it should be a big deal.

Well now I'm not seeing anybody who isn't rated lower than a 4.0. So I don't think this calculation is working very well.And Admin is rated at 1.0

From Message 45The message Larni is talking about is Message 1, which he posted on 04-29-2015, and he has 22 Cheers as of right now.Larni's great, I don't mean to take away from that. But how is this Member Rating supposed to work?He's still pegged at 10.0 three months later. How is it calculated?ABEIs it still this:rating = (total votes) / (total messages with one or more votes)from Message 203?Edited by Cat Sci, : No reason given.

Sorry for causing a ruckus.I don't really care about the Member Rating, I was just curious how you intended it to work.What is it that it is rating? How "good" of a member you are? Or how much people like you? Or how good the content you post is?The current system doesn't indicate to me that it actually rates the members in any meaningful way.Do you want suggestions on changing the formula that calculates it?

I still don't like the equation. And not because of the length of the 10.0 rating.It's that if I see a fairly aged message that I'd like to Cheer, and it doesn't have any Cheers yet, and the member's rating is above 1.0, then giving them that Cheer will actually lower their rating. 'Cause that would be one more rating to divide by and it'd only be providing one point.If a person has no history, and one post get zero cheers, then another post gets two cheers, and then their third posts gets two cheers, their rating would be (2+2)/2 = 2.0If I then go and cheer their first post, then their rating become (2+2+1)/3 = 1.7I don't want to lower their rating, so that's a disincentive for me to use the system. That's not good functionality.I'm sorry I don't have any constructive criticism at the time, but the equation does need to be improved if you want desired functionality.That's still part of your ultimate goal, right?You really do have the best forum software I've ever used on the net (that's a big reason that I've stayed here - you spoiled me). I'm assuming you may still be considering marketing it?