The Stars Are Out Tonite

I'd rate it, but I don't know how.

I'm strange though, I look at all the threads. Ratings don't mean anything to me.

I know just enough to be dangerous.

There's no place to rate it

On other threads I can find the rate button on the reply (edit) page??????

EDIT - OK got it. When I went back in to edit my posted reply, it showed up.

Here is Five Stars

EDIT again - It only showed up as one star on the "All Forum Threads" page.

Here, I'll try another five.

Edit - OK - Voting 10 stars (2 - fives) got me 2 stars on the AFT page.

Hmm, I just rated this a 2 just to see if this makes it a 3.5 or what?

I voted five, two more times but nothing appeared to change.

There, I got it up to 3 stars. Actually it was 2.7, so they must round off.

I don't understand.......................it always worked when I lived in Chicago

I voted 5².

I just did what we tell so many people to do: Refer to the FAQ!

From the Site Glossary, a few answers:

"Please note that we do not display half or quarter stars. Instead, we round up or round down to the closet rating. For example, an item rated 3.2 stars will physically display as 3 stars, while something rated 3.7 will appear as 4 stars. You are welcome to change your vote at any time, but CR4 will only consider your most recent vote for each story (i.e., if you vote that a story is a 2 and later change your vote to a 4, your original vote of 2 is deleted)."

So while you cannot vote more than one time, you may alter you vote at any time. I didn't realize that.

Cheater!!!!!!

And I have just awarded you a gratuitous GA.

That'll really fry his grits.

Gratuitous?!

Nah he earned both your and my GA with a perfect blend of humour and humility. _hic

I voted 1 to try and drag it down. But then I am usually somewhat contrary after the New Year.

You heretic! ;-)

And I am one of those who got his ass reamed out on here,,about a year or so ago.For listing

TOO DAM MANY :GOOD ANSWERS:

Kinda made me gun-shy,

a joe in Texas

yeah I know,, I post all over the web,,,it beats kicking the dog,,yelling at the boss,or throwing a tool that dont work right against the wall,

It's the New Year. ;-)

Rating a thread is nuts. I don't think in those terms but if I did, I would be aware that an interesting thread can turn to mushy brown stuff in the blink of an eye when the comedians descend on it with wildly OT posts, and then reward each other with GAs for these posts.

You have completly misunderstood the thread. This thread HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with awarding OTs or GAs. It's about the little gold stars that appear when someone thinks the THREAD is good and it has nothing to do with specific answers.

Thus, the title of the thread.

Why not go back to square one and start over.

More important is number of Good scores(1,2,3,4,5 etc) obtained by each participant to be published weekly.

There's only two things I consider before openning a thread:

Number of comments, and/or how appealing is the title.

Though at first I didn't get yours right, "did you mean celebrities gonne out for dinner? or tonight will be a dye black night? or to the contrary, full of stars?" I thought, but as walked in, the context revealed me what you meant.

Regards

Thanks Yahlasit.

That's another great point: a good thread title will probably attract more views and comments than a five-star rating.

I think that the regular members know there are many ESL (English as second language) posters and freely forgive thread title irregularities. Some are entertaining in themselves... I chuckle whenever I see Retired, No Title.

"Retired, No Title"

I keep applying for that job but they always say I am not qualified.

Ummm 3 stars

Thereby eloquently demonstrating it is meaningless

Much as the threads "How do I fix my Cavalier" and "Watt is an Ohm?" do.

BTW, I fixed "tonight" in your title - 2 more "ESL" stars right there.