New Feature: Community Rating Tool!

what a funny way to explain a boring thing. thanks man.

Its cool, blocks stupid posts.

That's great guys. I think a report feature is essential on a website with this many different boards that moderators simply cannot see everything. It can be abused, true, but any reporting system can. It doesn't matter anyway though because if something doesn't need deleted, the moderator won't delete it so no big deal :)

I usually play "Sounds of the Rain Forest: Wild Cat Edition" on my iPod when I'm reviewing submissions...so this whole cat concept is not far from the truth.

"HazBazz said:

"So, what you're saying is... all the mods are cats?
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Pretty much.
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Yes, pluses cancel out minuses.

Troll-B-Gone!

I never use the rating system, guess I should start.

Community rating tool and kittens... a most excellent combination.

Jolly_Lolly said:

"I never use the rating system, guess I should start.
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"Community rating tool and kittens... a most excellent combination.
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Jolly_Lolly said:

"I never use the rating system, guess I should start.
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Yes, you should!

Dalai said:

"Community rating tool and kittens... a most excellent combination.
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For those that are way out of line, we have evil kittens. 
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Good thing we now have an easier way of notifying the mods

God I hate cats, nice new system though should keep things civil around here. Though, GB's community was damn cool for the most part anyway.

"God I hate cats, nice new system though should keep things civil around here. Though, GB's community was damn cool for the most part anyway.
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Great idea! You're not kidding around with making this a great community!

Thats awesome, thanks guys.Will hopefully make people abit less invulnerable ;)

Oh no, not more cat internet pictures...

Awesome stuff. Trolls...be gone. :P

Sweet. The boards haven't been too bad. A few crazy things here and there but overall good. I've never seen a comment rated yet but that is much easier then having to tell someone on the net to chill. Thanks for this.

you need a serious thread from time to time not some people fuckin around anyways.

Moderator kitteh... I almost died laughing.

Anyways, good feature. Will use.

Cool feature

I love cats and I am not gay Cats rock 

These cats are welcome addition to the BombCrew. I think they'll lend class to the joint, BYO Fancy Feast.

Liked how you explained it to me in Lolcat terms, they are the only ones I know

I'm curious as to why when a post has a positive rating it's color is black, and since the site's background is also black, it makes it hard to see?  I'd think you'd guys want to praise good posters with a clearer number.   But that's my thought.

People have been taking the hand out of this feature :O

The number of negative votes required to flag a bad thread has been reduced.  This is going to mean more work for moderators but hopefully we'll catch more bad threads sooner this way. 

The implementation of lolcats is genius.

Many Internets to you sir.

Ok, I just added that newsflash. Everyone read it, it is SERIOUS BUSINESS.

If you abuse the Rating Tool system, do the moderators find out? I mean like, if you click negative for a person, for no real reason, is that logged in and known? Or is it like Anonymous? You get a message saying "X User reported Y user in this topic?" Or "A user negatively rated this user in a topic?"

We simply have a notice that says something is below the count. We don't know which post, just something in the topic.

"We simply have a notice that says something is below the count. We don't know which post, just something in the topic."

Yes, that would be nice. Hopefully the staff can integrate that soon enough.

"Yes, that would be nice. Hopefully the staff can integrate that soon enough."

Republic of Casey approves

Also, I hope, when you go to negatively rate someone, it brings you to a new menu. That makes you give an explanation on why you flagged it (i.e. spam, wrong section), so if it is in the wrong section it can be marked for that and just moved. And when other users go to flag, there is a section in that menu for "recently flagged", and it will not show the user, but the explanation, and an ability to simply click that, and it will add another negative point to that already flagged post, and prevent multiple flags of the same explanation.

And, hopefully with that feature, moderators will be able to view who is flagging, and why. Would be nice.

Can I ask a question, can we use this feature to report posts that are in the wrong forum, or should we only use it for posts that should be deleted?

"Can I ask a question, can we use this feature to report posts that are in the wrong forum, or should we only use it for posts that should be deleted?"

"MattyFTM said:

"Can I ask a question, can we use this feature to report posts that are in the wrong forum, or should we only use it for posts that should be deleted?"

If a post needs to be moved, send a link to a forum moderator along with where you think the topic belongs.  Keep in mind that we can currently only move threads between the major forums such as General, Off Topic, Bug Reports, Editing, Delete, and Bombcast."

Only if there was a better discussion on the same topic going on in the approriate forum, or if I was able to catch the thread before it got too many replies.  For the former, I would lock the topic with a link to the existing thread.  For the latter, I'd lock with a link to the correct forum with instructions to repost there.

If the discussion is already going on, we'll just leave it. 

"ManlyBeast said:

And you don't think people will abuse this one? People will just rate you down if they don't agree with you.

True, but the beauty of this system is that nothing is automatic.  People can give you negative ratings all they want, but if there is nothing wrong with your post, then no action will be taken. 
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This could ether turn really bad, but if everyone uses it well it could be a good thing but never really been apart of any forum where the "rep" system doesnt get abused. Good to see that there are new features getting added to the site regularly.

 sounds good.

clubsandwich approves this message.

Can it go over +9000?

No, but this post has +60 which is pretty freakin high.

This is better than the rubber bullets they use to suppress trolls at other forums.