Tagging a post for a rating.

[Midwest]

My 'Alerts' tab shows me when someone adds a tag to my posts?

 

[Edtwozeronine]

If you look in your 'Profile Page' mate, you can see what rating you gave and received. You have had 3 Dumb ratings.
The thing with the ratings system is, you can't even click on them to see when you were given them... Utterly useless....

In that case I only noticed the one I saw in a thread I was replying to at the time, most likely all lazy students that don't want to do their work.

 

[Spoon]

My 'Alerts' tab shows me when someone adds a tag to my posts?

Mine to mate, but I can't look back at the 12 'Dumb' ratings I have been given to see how many are just members joking with me, people trolling or people who genuinely think I've posted something stupid. Again, utter useless...

 

[Spoon]

In that case I only noticed the one I saw in a thread I was replying to at the time, most likely all lazy students that don't want to do their work.

Don't worry about it mate. The other two are most prob from people who are jealous of you...

 

[ElectricSeamus]

Wow. If you're an adult and someone clicking a button on the internet has a tangible affect on your life, you should get off the internet and stay off. Pathetic and sad to see internet forums now falling to the current hurt feelings plague sweeping the world.

In my opinion, all the ratings are worth having and nobody should have to explain a rating unless they choose to. Likewise, nobody should let the desire for an explanation of a rating they have received affect their life in any way. This is the internet after all.

Bans should be handed out to bad spellers and lazy contributors who can't be bothered to even attempt to punctuate hundreds of words or fail to capitalise names, not to people handing out ratings.

 

[static zap]

Bans should be handed out to bad spellers and lazy contributors who can't be bothered to even attempt to punctuate hundreds of words or fail to capitalise names, not to people handing out ratings.

Just wondering if I'm guilty , lazy sentence structure , _Dis-jointed thought structure_.
And --- Inappropriate "use" of emphassis-- ?
(Plus my granma)

 

[Spoon]

Wow. If you're an adult and someone clicking a button on the internet has a tangible affect on your life, you should get off the internet and stay off. Pathetic and sad to see internet forums now falling to the current hurt feelings plague sweeping the world.

I think you must have misread all the posts mate. No hurt feelings involved. Some ratings are totally useless and throw thread off topic.
Have you not read what @darkwood said about having to sort out issues between members using them?

In my opinion, all the ratings are worth having and nobody should have to explain a rating unless they choose to. Likewise, nobody should let the desire for an explanation of a rating they have received affect their life in any way. This is the internet after all.

And in my opinion, people who disagree with a post that has several points in it, without explaining which point they disagree with, may as well not bother rating it. I've seen it a few times. The poster ask which point they disagree with and they get no reply... Most prob it's from some muppet who's had a bad bad and wants to troll members.

 

[ElectricSeamus]

A rating is not trolling. So what if they don’t explain it.

 

[Spoon]

A rating is not trolling. So what if they don’t explain it.

It is trolling when you target an particular members posts and rate them 'Dumb'.
I like to learn stuff from the forum mate. If someone disagrees with one of my posts then I would like to know why. Most people who do disagree with one of my posts will tell me why. I may be wrong in what I was thinking. Then I learn stuff.
If someone disagrees with one of my posts that has a few points in it, without explaining the rating then it's not really constrictive.

 

[ferg]

It's just a rating. I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about.

 

[Zerax]

This whole "dumb" thing stems from the high likelihood that this forum is US written. It's normal to just buy code chunks to save reinventing the wheel each time. Not being familiar with the usual parlance of the U, S of A... it's probably not a big insult there... like "air head" in the UK means not a lot, but is a big insult there ? Maybe the forum tags just need to be updated for UK use ??

 

[Spoon]

It's just a rating. I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about.

Very true mate. I just see no need for the 'Dumb' and 'Bad Spelling' rating. They can cause issues in posts. Especially is you receive one from someone you don't like. No, not talking about me mate. I've seen thread go off at a tangent cause of a 'Dumb' rating. I don't dislike anyone on this forum, so not really an issue for me mate.

 

[Spoon]

This whole "dumb" thing stems from the high likelihood that this forum is US written. It's normal to just buy code chunks to save reinventing the wheel each time. Not being familiar with the usual parlance of the U, S of A... it's probably not a big insult there... like "air head" in the UK means not a lot, but is a big insult there ? Maybe the forum tags just need to be updated for UK use ??

Apparently the plumber forum does not have the Dumb rating and yet it's run by the same person. Why the change?
They ask us to be polite and professional in out posts. How is rating someones post 'Dumb' either of these?

 

[static zap]

@Zerax mmm Food for thought .
Air heads , and overly chilled out "Stoners".
..an un-expected twist ,such is life !

 

[Darkwood]

@Spoon
The Plumbing Forum is a different thing, I think been dumb is part of the requirements of a plumber so it would be pointless having it has a rating, it simply goes without saying.

@ElectricSeamus
The dumb rating discussion relates to the problems it causes down the line particularly for staff who have to tidy up threads, the issue is as expressed in my original post, members are using it to simply troll other members and also fail to expand through a post of why it has been given if it isn't self evident.
This is not an exercise to protect snowflakes from horrible ratings or hurt feelings, it is asking members to consider expanding on the rating if it is not clear, otherwise members can be left confused and start chasing up reasons which takes the threads off course and often derails them which is a headache for staff to clean up.

In the real world you don't see people joining into a conversation of strangers and telling one of them what they said was dumb then walking off without so much as any explanation, so why do it on a forum, the reaction and confusion is just the same and any recipient probably would want to know why it was said/given.