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What's with the 'Rating' and downvote options?

JB33

I am struggling to see anything positive coming from having the ability to rate peoples posts from 1 to 5 stars. Do the developers/forum owners realise we are a pool of people who tend to struggle regulating our emotions and likely have strong RSD? Of all places to be able to downvote or poorly rate someone's comment - geez, you'll have folk off worrying what they done wrong, feeling unfairly treated or ruminating for days over a low score. I suspect I am not alone here, but as a software engineer myself, this has to be one of the worst features I've ever seen on such a site. I've seen people post with such emotion and detail, struggling to find a voice and then seeing a 1 star rating on it and it really bothers me. I hate to think what the other person is then thinking after seeing this. 

If any product owner/manager reads these or there is a feedback section, you should strongly consider removing this option and instead simply have upvotes with the point being, the most upvoted content gets shown first (... Reddit ... cough, cough ...)

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  • It's also I think very easy to accidentally click on the rating, and then it won't let you change it which is a terrible system flaw too.

    Or not even realised you've clicked on it? I've been wondering if that is a problem?

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Ohhh if that's happening then that's extremely poor design. I think the problem is the fact the rating system exists at all. We should start a small army ... :D

  • in reply to JB33
    JB33 said:
    We should start a small army ... :D

    This thread isn't about the ratings although that's been discussed here before:

     RE: List of forum faults part 2 

    Don't try to go to newest as it hangs.

    The thing is that many of us have tried to improve the forum and failed.

    We were asked about emoticons and reactions and which type we would like, gave feedback and the old voting system remained.

    We were asked once about what improvements could be made to the forum generally as a new one was being rolled out, and lots of suggestions were given, but we got back an almost identical forum with more faults.

     RE: New forum? Really? 

    There have been suggestions too of changing to a different, more modern type of forum but I don't think there is the will or the funds from the people running this one to effect change.

    I've come to the conclusion that we are stuck with it and that eventually, hopefully, faults will be remedied.

    It's old and clanky but it's what we've got.

  • in reply to B

    I've just had a look under the hood to some extent (anyone can using F12, Devtools to inspect page elements and long running network calls). I can immediately see a large problem: they're using jQuery (and that's without looking at their API backend). I mean, unless you're living in a cave, no one really uses that anymore. It's dated, horrid to maintain when compared to modern web frameworks and more importantly, likely swamped in technical debt. My take on this is would be it's too time consuming to uplift this forum to a new tech stack and enrich the features. Either that, or the software devs there aren't sure how to without breaking something important - I bet it is like a house of cards. I wish I could actually see the code to give a more detailed evaluation. 

    Summary: this forum uses dated web technology that is either too costly to upgrade or too problematic to. Likely both.

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  • in reply to B

    I've just had a look under the hood to some extent (anyone can using F12, Devtools to inspect page elements and long running network calls). I can immediately see a large problem: they're using jQuery (and that's without looking at their API backend). I mean, unless you're living in a cave, no one really uses that anymore. It's dated, horrid to maintain when compared to modern web frameworks and more importantly, likely swamped in technical debt. My take on this is would be it's too time consuming to uplift this forum to a new tech stack and enrich the features. Either that, or the software devs there aren't sure how to without breaking something important - I bet it is like a house of cards. I wish I could actually see the code to give a more detailed evaluation. 

    Summary: this forum uses dated web technology that is either too costly to upgrade or too problematic to. Likely both.

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