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Why can't the stars go away?
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on May 20, 2007, 04:52:12 AM ---This might be true lol but I was kind of obsessed with it before that too! I only just realized recently I could actually see who it was.
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I have a thing when it comes to it too. Cause then I wonder who might've done it lol. Cause well, Nick's Turn, that one was more obvious cause at least that one came with a review from the person who did it to y'all lol. A misleading "good" one, but one nonetheless lol. JAD didn't and it kinda just irks me lol. Even though it shouldn't lol. Same with I Remember. I think the rating should suit the review and that everyone should be able to see who left what rating lol. Maybe then we wouldn't have the drive-by bad rating person/people lol. Can Ash do anything about making it so we can see who rates what even if we're not all cool like Mare? ;) lol.
/end mini rant lol.
mare:
LOL I know it's hard to be as cool as me!
Like I said I don't mind letting you guys know who ranked you what but I don't know if i'm violating some kind of law doing so, lmao likethe law of stupid people or something. What I want to do is make some kind of announcement in the news section saying starting today if an author asks for the person who lowered their rank I will let them know but the problem with that is, then they can just do it anonymously or lower it without even leaving a review. I can't tell when someone does that.
I know for my newest short story someone lowered my stars to a 6 for no reason other than so I wouldn't have a 10 lmao How do I know this? Because I know this person although I don't think she's aware that I am able to see that!
I'm glad i'm not alone with the disliking of the ratings system. I mean I think a ratings system is a good idea but only if it's done fairly and in this case I don't think it is but like i've said a ton of times I don't think I have access to the part of the site that would change that so hopefully Ash is reading all of this stuff and maybe he will rework that part of the site. At least maybe make it not possible to just leave ratings or anonymous reviews.
mare:
--- Quote from: Rose on May 20, 2007, 06:10:04 AM ---I have a thing when it comes to it too. Cause then I wonder who might've done it lol. Cause well, Nick's Turn, that one was more obvious cause at least that one came with a review from the person who did it to y'all lol. A misleading "good" one, but one nonetheless lol. JAD didn't and it kinda just irks me lol. Even though it shouldn't lol. Same with I Remember. I think the rating should suit the review and that everyone should be able to see who left what rating lol. Maybe then we wouldn't have the drive-by bad rating person/people lol. Can Ash do anything about making it so we can see who rates what even if we're not all cool like Mare? ;) lol.
/end mini rant lol.
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Okay so JAD I can tell you that sometimes when someone reviews without logging in, instead of the stars being automatically set to ten they are set to none and in your last chapter I think that's what happened. The first chapter I think someone ranked you without leaving a review which is why your star count was lowered.
So if anyone leaves a review without signing in make sure you change the ratings before you post if you care about things like that.
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on May 20, 2007, 07:25:25 AM ---LOL I know it's hard to be as cool as me!
Like I said I don't mind letting you guys know who ranked you what but I don't know if i'm violating some kind of law doing so, lmao likethe law of stupid people or something. What I want to do is make some kind of announcement in the news section saying starting today if an author asks for the person who lowered their rank I will let them know but the problem with that is, then they can just do it anonymously or lower it without even leaving a review. I can't tell when someone does that.
I know for my newest short story someone lowered my stars to a 6 for no reason other than so I wouldn't have a 10 lmao How do I know this? Because I know this person although I don't think she's aware that I am able to see that!
I'm glad i'm not alone with the disliking of the ratings system. I mean I think a ratings system is a good idea but only if it's done fairly and in this case I don't think it is but like i've said a ton of times I don't think I have access to the part of the site that would change that so hopefully Ash is reading all of this stuff and maybe he will rework that part of the site. At least maybe make it not possible to just leave ratings or anonymous reviews.
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Yeah I wouldn't mind the ratings system at all if I knew they were done fairly. Cause we can all grow as writers, and if I get a rating that's not awesome, I'd wanna know so I could work on it. That's how they should be used, and since this is happening to many of us, it's true purpose isn't being used.
RokofAges75:
There should be some kind of rubric you have to fill out when you do a rating... like, rate them on certain aspects of the story - the plot, the characters, mechanics, something like that - so you'd know exactly what you were being rated higher or lower on. I don't think that's possible with the eFiction script so I'm not suggesting that for AC, but that would be cool.
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