As promised, with the television sweeps period starting tonight, it's now time for everyone here to put on their best show and try to get THEIR ratings up. Everyone's flatlined as of....right now.
For your perusal, here now are the top 10 raters as of just before I zapped the table (of 9871 ratings):
412 Mr. Heat Miser 372 Ryan_A 360 Zeruel 324 Big G 289 redsoxnation 238 CRZ 204 emma 192 Jaguar 186 jvincion 150 kazhayashi81
If you're dying to see YOUR name in this list, I'll run the numbers again at the end of sweeps, which this year is 1 December.
Just a reminder that ratings are more interesting if you give out ALL the numbers, as opposed to just tens and zeroes. Also, one more reminder that begging for ratings, or talking about specific ratings you're giving specific people is generally bad taste and frowned upon.
You know what'd be neat would be if instead of having the "rate think link" link on posts, there'd just be links to number 0 thru 10 which would assign the rating and load back the post page instead of going to an in between page.
Is there some kind of scale that weights each person's vote? Because a 7 and 9 don't average out to an 8. (The former was with 1 vote, then my rating for 2.)
The Zims have a secret formula. As for sweeps I went and started re-rating all the posters who were more well known to me, but I think that kind of ruins the game. So I'm going to re-delete all those ratings (except for DEAN~!) and try and rate everybody based on what they say from today onward, not what they've said in the past.
-Jag
"During his term in office, George Bush has relentlessly continued to be presidentdespite the clear benefits to America his absence would bring to the lives of citizens everywhere."
Originally posted by The GoonWhat do those ratings affect?
Not much, really. In your profile there is an option to ignore users with a rating below a certain number, but that's about it.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If you want me to watch the shows, buy tickets when you come to town, buy t-shirts, and pay for a PPV every three days, you bet your ass I'm going to hard to impress. And when you give me stuff that blows and then tell me I don't get a vote on sharing that opinion, I'm going to tell you to go catch an STD." - Hogan's My Dad
"My brother saw the Undertaker walking through an airport." - Rex "Was he no-selling?" - Me
The ratings don't show up unless someone's rated you, and apparently no one has since the ratings were erased. One people start to, you'll get a number.
"If you want me to watch the shows, buy tickets when you come to town, buy t-shirts, and pay for a PPV every three days, you bet your ass I'm going to hard to impress. And when you give me stuff that blows and then tell me I don't get a vote on sharing that opinion, I'm going to tell you to go catch an STD." - Hogan's My Dad
"My brother saw the Undertaker walking through an airport." - Rex "Was he no-selling?" - Me
COuld there be an option available that allows posters to see who voted them what, and maybe offer an opportunity to ask WHY they were voted a "3" or whatever?
I'm all for a rating system, but it would be nice for such system to be used honestly instead of saying "I don't like his sig, I'll rate him a zero" or "he corrected me, I'm gonna give him a 1". I'd like to see an option where ratings like that can be turned down and discussed, if possible.
It's my experience with ratings systems that people who feel they were rated unfairly (or rated due to their "intelligence", such as "he rated me poorly because I corrected his grammar") generally deserve exactly what they get.
Unless it's me. Then it's just plain wrong. Cause I can blow up the board with this little red switch. <points>
... Adam
Oh, I'm sorry sir. I didn't mean to infer that you might be poverty stricken. Should I revise my statement to make it clear that you have way more money than brains?
So true! I won't put this in, because it's difficult to stop myself from bitching about the guy who gave me an 8 rating after I corrected him in the Arafat thread
Willful ignorance of science is not commendable. Refusing to learn the difference between a credible source and a shill is criminally stupid.
I've fixed* our Yahoo! search page - this one - and don't let it get out, but I think if you want to find something ON THIS SITE, you MAY have better luck there than with the G search page. Or maybe not. Let us know! Or don't!