How is everyone 'using' the new ratings? - General

We've had this thread/discussion a few times, but it's been a few months now so I figured it was worth bringing up again. It's a pretty minor topic, but how are you guys using some of the more niche ratings? Stuff like sympathy, artistic, baby, cute, etc. Have the new ratings adopted any new half-meanings? Are there any ratings that overwhelmingly mean something they're not intended to, like optimistic used to? I'm kind of curious to see if a new 'culture' around these ratings has managed to form, or if everyone still misses the old ones. A few examples I've adopted are sympathy, which, aside from using to rate sad posts, I use on posts I fundamentally disagree with, but whose point I really do understand in some way. Particularly if there's a bit of a dogpile going on. Bad reading is another variant of this, basically a way to disagree without leaving a big unhelpful red tick on their posts. I usually use this if I think they've missed something, but not always literally misread. Sometimes I'm pretty spiteful with it though. Sorry if I've rated you bad reading. Annd the big focus of discussion the last time this topic rolled around: What is the point of baby? Are people still using it as a dumb substitute? What about artistic? I've noticed thats lost its cheeky 'autism' implication to it. Or has it? What is lucky used for? Why is cute so useless? Discuss.

Lucky seems to be used as a replacement for optimistic

The thing about ratings like snowflake is that since it is rare and the icon looks kinda gross next to the others, it enhances that "this is a terrible post" look when it gets used properly.

I almost exclusively use it to point out right-wing idiots getting triggered about something. Sort of rub their face in their hypocrisy - "you can't whine about millenials being entitled snowflakes and also demand the government censor anyone you don't like". Left-wing idiots getting triggered, or non-political whining, gets a Baby.

Snowflake really is basically the same as baby. I don't like it when people just use them as substitute for dumb. They need to be saved for when someone is actually whining uselessly or hypocritically about something. Not just complaining about something you disagree with, like gun control or anti-gun control or whatever. But stuff like "why are you guys asking me for evidence" or "these protesters complaining about X saying racist things are erasing X's free speech rights, the protesters need to be silenced" or "how DARE they change 2 frames of animation in this game, I'm starting a BOYCOTT" Snowflake is good for ice puns, though. And a little bit better for people complaining about facing any disagreement. This isn't a new rating, but sometimes I use "late" on posts where people have been or are definitely going to be banned, as sort of a "later" thing. it, uh, hasn't caught on

Asshole is an interesting one because sometimes you can't tell if people are calling the poster an asshole or something/someone they are talking about or posting (often a news article).

I like to pretend that the artistic rating is a bucket of blood

But it's adorable! Granted, you can't really see that...at all. The cute emote is pretty darn cute, too. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132374/aae7d21f-e59f-4653-a1ee-cbbe5fcf6094/image.png

Oh man I am kinda paranoid about the snowflake rating. I tend to get it semi-often on art/joke-posts and I never know if means people think it is shit or not. Personally I would never use the snowflake rating for anything except where the expression "special snowflake" would be appropriate and for me that expression always have a negative denotation. If I found a post like that truly good I would rate it artistic rather than snowflake.

I like the new ratings rate diamond if you agree!!!!

I give people coins semi randomly. Sometimes if their post is good and as a reward, but other times just for nothing really. I have too many coins that I can't be bothered to use. I like the big avatar fund that someone has going.

It ended about 20 days ago. 180*180 is as big as it goes. Again, huge props to all who contributed to make it happen.

Now that I've gathered all the ratings, I'll be able to snap half of the forum out of existence, or something.

Garry beat you to it, I'm sorry bud.

I give Saint Furrybutt a diamond when he writes an incomprehensible post that makes me laugh, so yeah. I rarely use my coins for anything but irony. Lucky is sometimes used for stories about marijuana or to replace optimistic and I also use 'late' on stories about somebody who has died.

I disabled ratings with userscripts a long time ago. Can't see them, can't use them. I only disable it to rating Noobs posts diamonds when I can afford it.

I kinda believe that Diamond is useless. I've only seen it used, like, once.

I let God pass judgement on your posting instead of me.

I tend to prefer a more direct, literal interpretation of the Bible ratings. If the post contains the following: Weed/plants = Lucky rating Picture of someone in glasses = Bad Reading rating Winter/Christmas = Snowflake rating Children = Baby rating Alcohol = Big Whoop rating I feel it really helps to know exactly what rating I should rate a post without having to think too much for myself.

What the fuck was there always a face in the snowflake emote?

Coins and Diamond are weird because I've seen them used as psuedo replacements for Zing. You can't really use Winner as Zing as Zing is more contextual compared to a generic Winner. Also on contextual ratings (or tongue in cheek). I miss Useful, as it falls right between Informative, Agree and Winner while be a double tongue in cheek for some posters as "this poster is a tool".

To be honest, informative is a pretty good replacement for useful on the whole, although I'd much rather have useful or optimistic back than snowflake.

Bad Spelling is so bloody useless now I come to think of it

I'd say 99% of bad spelling ratings are used for ChadTheGoatMan/Saint Furrybutt posts.

I've seen him rate other people bad spelling in retaliation before, lol. Still, he has autism apparently, and he says that's why he uses the incorrect words.

I really really don't like the "big whoop" rating. Every time I see it I just want to throw my computer out the window.