• Making Facepunch better - Don't post about ratings
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[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;48150091]"Funny" ratings encourage people to derail the thread with puns though. I agree with what you said about ratings backing up whether a user's comment is a worthwhile contribution to discussion or not, though.[/QUOTE] Something at the back of my mind's telling me that this could possibly blow up in the same way they banned puns and jokes in SH way back when. Most of the community or SH regulars would see this as being a negative change.
Funny — or whatever the alternative will substitute any negative rating.
Just let Agree, Disagree, Useful and Informative and Friendly stay.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;48150120]Funny — or whatever the alternative will substitute any negative rating.[/QUOTE] Maybe keep zing, instead of funny? It's harder to use negatively and people can still reward funny posts.
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;48150067]I understand removing ratings in SH like "Funny", "Zing", "Winner", "Dumb", and other ratings that encourage puns/derailments/arguements but I wouldn't see the harm in keeping ratings like Informative, Friendly, Agree, Disagree, or Useful.[/QUOTE] Informative was a good rating too. If ratings come back at all, I would love to see bad reading brought back to replace dumb.
Ratings will always adapt to whatever meanings people begin to attribute them. We could replace all ratings with Pokemon, and people would still be sending me whiny PM's asking to ban somebody for giving them too many Bulbasaurs.
I personally can't wait for people to make posts only containing an [img] tagged rating [editline]t[/editline] we're not spending the extra time to code in and out specific ratings. If you're gonna talk politics you better have something to say. Having any random ratings, like bda said, will just let people attribute new meanings. People already use late and dumb for bad reading, optimistic for gay, informative for "jesus fuck", and so on
[QUOTE=Carlton Dance;48150133]Just let Agree, Disagree, Useful and Informative and Friendly stay.[/QUOTE] We are not against specific ratings, we removed all ratings because no matter what stays — they will foster bad posting.
[QUOTE=dai;48150159]I personally can't wait for people to make posts only containing an [img] tagged rating[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/tick.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Fangz;48150148]Informative was a good rating too. If ratings come back at all, I would love to see bad reading brought back to replace dumb.[/QUOTE] AFAIK there's no plan to ever reintroduce bad reading/spelling, also new ratings as well (?)
On a totally new topic here- Has there been any talk about changing the forum's skin? Or at lest updating what we got now?
[QUOTE=dai;48150159]I personally can't wait for people to make posts only containing an [img] tagged rating[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/nintendo/images/0/06/PKMN001.png/revision/latest?cb=20120527010414&path-prefix=en[/IMG]
If the intention was to abolish bandwagoning, we should just remove ratings everywhere. No reason to have them at all, and it really changes the way you read posts actually.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;48150191]If the intention was to abolish bandwagoning, we should just remove ratings everywhere. No reason to have them at all, and it really changes the way you read posts actually.[/QUOTE] Ratings have their purpose in places, for example its better than having a load of sub posts quoting posts going "I agree", +1 etc.
[QUOTE=Doom64hunter;48150191]and it really changes the way you read posts actually.[/QUOTE] it sucks the fun out of them
[QUOTE=NixNax123;48150203]it sucks the fun out of them[/QUOTE] yeah I just don't know when to laugh at a joke or nod in approval
If anything ratings should be enabled for the original posts to see how people react to the stories. Otherwise I'd have no major issue with them being disabled for subsequent posts.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;48149836]Ratings have been removed from SH, everybody freak out.[/QUOTE] I'm going to be a Buzz Killington, but remember how Mass Debate panned out? yeah...
So no hobby forums, no jokes or puns, and now no ratings. I see we're slowly going for the '2005-era fanforum' approach, a risky move but will it be enough to surprise Facepunch's competitors and reclaim the videogame discussion market? Tune in next time when we remove avatars due to 56k bandwidth concerns. [editline]8th July 2015[/editline] Facepunch 2017: Several bubbles of unconnected text on a massive white page.
[QUOTE=Van-man;48150279]I'm going to be a Buzz Killington, but remember how Mass Debate panned out? yeah...[/QUOTE] Mass Debate was different from SH, though. Unless I'm misremembering it, it was a place to make a topic about a general thing (like, say, gun laws) and to debate for either side. SH is just a place to put news articles in.
How am I supposed to know if these posts are incredibly funny or incredibly dumb without the help of others? [QUOTE=QuinnithXD;48150292]NOOOOOOOOO GABEN[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ryokenshin;48150246]GABEN WHY?[/QUOTE] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1475046[/url]
[QUOTE=Van-man;48150279]I'm going to be a Buzz Killington, but remember how Mass Debate panned out? yeah...[/QUOTE] a separate subforum people don't frequent much, with extremely polarizing topics that a lot of people don't care to bite into, and the air of being mocked for starting a new debate over more polarizing garbage, sure went down the drains without ratings [editline]e[/editline] [QUOTE=TurtleeyFP;48150299]Several bubbles of unconnected text on a massive white page.[/QUOTE] I'm sending robotboy this post and a link to agar.io
[QUOTE=dai;48150331]a separate subforum people don't frequent much, with extremely polarizing topics that a lot of people don't care to bite into, and the air of being mocked for starting a new debate over more polarizing garbage, sure went down the drains without ratings [editline]e[/editline] I'm sending robotboy this post and a link to agar.io[/QUOTE] And with rules tighter that postal's asshole.
What is the fate of ratings in the news node? They are still active at the moment.
Who even goes into news node?
[QUOTE=Gimme20dollaz;48150387]News node is pretty much just people whining about the PCGameN bot nowadays.[/QUOTE] they had to find something to complain about when ShackNewsFeed bot bit the dust :v:
Damn it Robotboy, how else am I going to whore funnies and boxes now?
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;48150416]Damn it Robotboy, how else am I going to whore funnies and boxes now?[/QUOTE] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1470527[/url]
Is this funny wheres pac man??
Why not at the very least enable rating on OP
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