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That part I understand - I am referring to her protests about the use of them by moderators outside of the classifieds.

If I was working for a company for free what threads would I push up the star ladder?

When I don't have a lot of time to read all the forums I scan the stars to find out what the average person thinks is interesting in SL. Now it's what the Res Mods think is interesting. I'm not one for being told what is interesting or valued by a singular group of ppl. I am very interested in what the majority feels.

If I was working for a company for free what threads would I push up the star ladder?

Though arguably petty, the OP has a point.

Using a star system in the classified forums is a flawed concept.

Points to take into consideration include;

1. Many of the designers perusing the classifieds are competitiors. Do you for one minute believe that they are unbiased when rating their competition? Given one guess, how many stars to you supose one designer is giving their most fierce competitor.

2. The star system provides no constructive feedback other than "you're great," "you're average," or "you suck." IMHO, if youre going to tell someone they suck, atleast give them the benefit of knowing why they suck so that they can improve upon their "suckage."

3. The star system is beholden to popularity. More often than not, if you have lots of friends or are quite popular your product will be rated favorably regardless of how sucky it is. Conversely, if your new or not very popular, your product will get an average rating, if any, unless its particularly outstanding.

4. How about if youre a very good designer but may have, for whatever reason, had disagreements with a few people or groupsr? Do you think this may be reflected on their product's ratings?

These are just a few points. I'm certain I could think of more but I think the point is made (and i dont want to go on and on about this )

Bottom line is, the rating system simply does not accurately reflect the quality of the product. If it cant accomplish this objective, what good is it?

Most threads never have a star rating on them anyway, so what is the big deal? Also, it does not take very many votes on a thread to make its star rating appear - so seeing a star rating is not an indicator of a majority feeling something, just of a few people having voted. The system is pretty useless. Perhaps if it is used well by moderators, it will point out active, interesting and useful threads. You know, the things people claim to always want? Again, I just think without seeing the implementation, it is weird to damn the entire thing already. It does have some potential, and it is not like the current ratings mean anything anyway as they are so rarely used.

Her main point is not about classifieds, the flaws of which have already been rehashed many times. Her complaint is about forum moderators being the ones to rate threads - they have removed our ability to rate in any forum except classifieds. While she remains upset about classifieds, her issue is now with the new system as well.

I think I explained my use for them Cristiano. I personaly think its another control user views issue. I don't like that.

I understand your view, I simply disagree.

Cat

You, personally, you mean? Possibly your many good bye threads. Just as a guess.

first of all, i think this is probably one of those threads that should be moved to Off Topic since it doesn't have direct relevance to the world of SL and is more of a forum pet peeve on this new development; HOWEVER, i really, really don't wantr to make a mis-step anywhere.. so, for now, i'm leaving that alone.

This should in fact be moved to Off-Topic.

Also, since we have removed the ability for non-Linden or ResMods to rate threads in the Discussion forums, it makes sense to remove the ability in other forums as well. Thank you for your patience during this new phase of the Second Life Forums.

Does this mean that the 'Off Topic' forums are the correct place to discuss the official Second Life forums?

That seems strange to me.