Post Ratings Discussion

Should we have a fish hook rating?

  • Yea

    Votes: 1,032 85.5%
  • Nay

    Votes: 175 14.5%

  • Total voters
    1,207
iirc, the powerlevel rating was changed to TMI in order to mess with future generations who wouldn't understand why it had that symbol, but the rules near the reply box in certain subforums say in big bold letters "Hide your powerlevel"---which kind of defeats the purpose. if the future generation is to be fucked with, mentions of "powerlevel" in all forum rules should probably be scrubbed.
 
A very insignificant issue, but I'll put it out there - in "Reactions received" most reactions seem to be misaligned, like so:
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Some are misaligned to the point that they either disappear or become something else:
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The rest seem to be fine.
 
The fuck are the little drink reactions? Or most reactions to be honest. Some of them are pretty straightforward, but for example when someone tags Autism are they saying the post is autistic or youre autistic for posting it? I feel genuinely autistic having to ask about social cues but such is the life of a newfag. Anyone wanna fill me in
 
The fuck are the little drink reactions? Or most reactions to be honest. Some of them are pretty straightforward, but for example when someone tags Autism are they saying the post is autistic or youre autistic for posting it? I feel genuinely autistic having to ask about social cues but such is the life of a newfag. Anyone wanna fill me in
I tend to use autistic for weird ass responses, sperging, as a lesser form of dumb, and for tinfoiling too. It's the swiss army knife of stickers.
 
About the only other emote I'd want is a 'pessimistic' one. It's the thing I've wanted to rate posts multiple times but can't; most of the rest of the specific responses I have to certain things can be covered by the others.
 
I honestly don't like the new way that ratings are displayed at the bottom of posts, where the format is
[top 3 ratings in order] [user1], [user2], [user3] and [x] others because it always feels like there's less ratings on a post than there actually are this way.
I prefer the old type, where it was
[rating] x[number given] for everything anyone has done and you could click and see whodunit.

It makes it easier to tell at a glance what the general consensus on a post is because if there is a smaller proportion of other ratings in the new system they won't even show up. Also I honestly feel like it's funnier to have a three-car pileup of ratings at the bottom of everything. I have my alerts for ratings off so if I want to see how a post is doing I'd always rely on scrolling by it and taking a look.
I know you can just click on it to get a more detailed breakdown but that strikes me as more inconvenient than anything.

Finally, I do believe that an oxford comma is needed when listing the users who've reacted to a post, because many users here have multiple words with spaces in their username which occasionally contain the word "and", which I believe can lead to confusion when reading.
Like, is it two users named "Recon" and "Positron" who rated a post, or one user with the name "Recon and Positron"? Is it one user called "Peace and Harmony" who rated this or two users named "Peace" and "Harmony"?
It sounds dumb but people have some autist usernames on this site and if I didn't know any better I'd get confused by it sometimes, too.

Idk I tried to just live with the new system for a long time but it still bugs me.
It's not a super huge issue but there you are.
 
After spending quite a bit of time in the communities forum, I think we should have an “infected” rating for individual posts.

KF is not the place to relitigate your drama from within these communities.
 
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