Why Ratings Are Not Objective.

I fail to see how this even could work given the widespread nature of debate. Two members from opposing camps of the deistic/theistic Vs atheistic debate might wholly agree with each other on social threads relating to gun laws or anti-discrimination laws. For example.I like the new member stats on forums participated in with percentages etc. Is there a way to see when a member last logged in? Regardless of having posted. If not is this a stat that could be published in a members stats profile?And if we want to get controversial is there a way to show not just the stats pertaining to the threads a member participates in and the number of posts per day - but their number of words per post?Half joking with that last one

I don't know if that is a subtle compliment, a subtle dig or just a statement of pure fact. But it sounds like a good idea. Flesch-Kincaid reading ease score

You may have noticed that your rating has plummeted. This is because of me (sorry). I rated about ten of your messages in a mini version of one of Petrophysics's campaigns of personal hatred to see what would happen. This is just blatantly untrue. The more you are continuously rated by one person the more that one persons vote counts. Blatantly.

Nope. It took all 10. I watched it go down successively and wondered if there would come a point of having no effect. That point didn't come. I just got bored. Never been suspended yet and would hate for it to occur over something done in the spirit of experimentation. Also I figured you admins could just wipe out the results of my experiment anyway. It is. Petrophysics has gone through and 1 rated every single post of some members (Phage and Bluegenes amongst others) in a given thread. He must have rated hundreds of messages at a time. Or at least it was. I see it has changed. So not sure what is going on now. But at least I can die happy with my new elevated status

I don't think I had ever rated Moose until my mini campaign of experimental 1 ratings. And each 1 rating I gave him had a significant effect.So I am unconvinced that is how it actually works. But who knows. Bring on the new all singing all dancing AI system that actually gives you verbal feedback (in a Hawking style robot voice) as you write is all I can say.In Hawking robot voice: **This post sucks. Hit that submit button at your own risk of ridicule and humiliation**

Well I have rated an additional 9 of Moose's posts with 1s (sorry again Moose!) and this appears to have had no effect whatsoever on his member rating which remains a solid 4.I am not sure if that is as intended or not..

To see what happens. Easy to say from your elevated 3.4 status!! Apparently not. But as of now I will be!!BTW I have given your message of inspiration and hope a well deserved 5