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

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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  • My understanding is that before the Online Community Forum became a thing (15 or so years ago), NAS has been offered a selection of templates. None were perfect, so they went with what they thought was the best one.

    I don't know if it's still the case as I haven't checked, but in the area of the site where we can view and edit our profiles, there was a tab called 'Achievements' (or something like that), which contained a whole host of virtual medals that one could earn as a result of being an active member here. One of these medals was to have something like 100 friends. Yes, this on an online community forum for autists who often struggle to make and keep friends!

    About 2 or 3 years ago, there was one former member who had somehow managed to earn that medal, and was curious to find out if he would lose that achievement if all those friends were unfriended. It caused a degree of amusement (to me) when the former member began making desperate pleas for people to unfriend him. It was on the understanding that members could re-friend him after the experiment, if they wished to do so.

  • It caused a degree of amusement (to me) when the former member began making desperate pleas for people to unfriend him.

    That's amazing Rofl

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