Thread rating

[drone]

I can change the icon, its size, and the formating of the number, but I can't restore the 'star gradient' icons from the old system, as they work in completely different ways.

Can the icon differ based on what the current rating is?

[TinCow]

If we wish to avoid abuse of the rating system, maybe we can change that to a counter of stars/thanks.
If people like something, they can give it a star or thanks.
Then the total number of thanks received in the thread is displayed on the thread index.
Not sure whether this is possible, just an idea.

That would require extensive custom coding which I am not capable of doing.

Can the icon differ based on what the current rating is?

Not in this system. In the vanilla system, yes.

[Kadagar_AV]

I must say, I am still against this at large, come to think of it.

I will let one occasion stand as an example:

AskThePizzaGuy in the Medieval II forum wrote about how he set a record in beating the game fast, IE, conquer the world in [insert amazingly now number here] turns...

He then got heavily flamed for it, as so many of the people posting at that time was all for immersion and stuff.


With this ranking system, a member who not only excels at the game series, but also bother to write about it here, would be deeply put off. I know of a lot of people who read his threads and took motivation from it, hey, he beat a computer game record fast. But these very same people possibly wouldn't even have opened the thread had it had a rating of 2,3 or whatever.

So, really, what is the point of having it?

Bad topics soon end up on page XXX anyway... And we already have bumps and stickies to deal with the good posts.

[Maltz]

AskThePizzaGuy in the Medieval II forum wrote about how ...

You would think people playing for immersion should be mature enough to tolerate different styles of play.
I think that's when the moderator(s) should come in and encourage a worthy thread (like an official endorsement) and probably ask for a dedicated guide/move the thread in the guide forum.

[Axalon]

I would like to request a total removal/exemption of this feature in "my" sub-forum (that is the MTW-Redux fora). I don't want it there. If you please.


EDIT:
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This "feature" screws up the first-post-formatting of all my threads. I really don't like
that at all, it just looks like crap. If other people must have it elsewhere, I guess that
can't be helped but PLEASE keep it the hell out of my sub-forum at least... Alright? :)

- A

[TinCow]

Done.

[Axalon]

You have my thanks, and I appreciate the speed on this as well.

- A