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vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:08 pm
by ReverandGreen
If you only have 1 rating as all 1's and get tagged as a team killer despite not playing doubles or doing secret diplomacy it kind of sucks.

It's kind of like smiling at a woman in a bar and not thinking anything of it and she accuses you of having a small penis and date raping her - WTF?!?

Before you know it some next a-hole is citing that rating as evidence that you're a bad person and it cascades.

If it's humanly possible can people leave positive ratings where deserved to mitigate the effect of these griever ranting raters, thanks.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:58 pm
by Kotaro
Ratings are a joke, so that's not really a fair comparison/

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:26 pm
by 2dimes
What are ratings?

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:55 pm
by Dukasaur
2dimes wrote:What are ratings?

Low-ranking members of the Navy.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:21 am
by Von Blitzen
Given an average rating is 3, the ratings abuse here is the number of people who give everyone 5 stars all round.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:06 am
by Donelladan
Don't worry, your rating will probably get high pretty fast.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:52 am
by mrswdk
Von Blitzen wrote:Given an average rating is 3


Says you?

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:22 pm
by Ltrain
It's not quite as bad as being called a rapist.

After a while you will forget ratings are even there

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:44 am
by Silly Knig-it
The only way I use ratings is to see what you have given out. If you have a low rating, then I will check out what you give to others. If you give crap ratings to others then I will assume you deserve the ratings you have. If you give good ratings, then I will ignore what you have been given. And as several have already said, eventually you will have so many ratings that you can ignore them. No single a-hole can swing your ratings at that point.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:16 am
by mrswdk
Silly Knig-it wrote:The only way I use ratings is to see what you have given out. If you have a low rating, then I will check out what you give to others. If you give crap ratings to others then I will assume you deserve the ratings you have. If you give good ratings, then I will ignore what you have been given. And as several have already said, eventually you will have so many ratings that you can ignore them. No single a-hole can swing your ratings at that point.


Although some people might feel more compelled to leave ratings to warn people away form shitty players rather than to give 5* ratings to people who just took their turns silently once every 13-14 hours.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:57 pm
by iAmCaffeine
I silently taken my turns every 22-23hrs.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:42 pm
by YukFoo
Why is it when you "re-rate" someone, then your rating vanishes?

Also, what is with the half yellow star after you beat someone that you have already rated? Why do some have half stars?

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 9:09 pm
by Dukasaur
YukFoo wrote:Why is it when you "re-rate" someone, then your rating vanishes?

Also, what is with the half yellow star after you beat someone that you have already rated? Why do some have half stars?


The stars are fully coloured-in when it's a fresh rating (hasn't been archived yet.) Once it's been archived, the star changes to half-coloured.

Games are archived after five days. During those five days you can still change your mind about ratings. You can also still make comments in chat, in case you are still discussing the game with someone. After five days, the game is archived and both chat and ratings are frozen.

Of course, if you play someone again, you can give them a new rating and it overwrites the previous one, but the old game remains archived.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:55 pm
by mookiemcgee
Dukasaur wrote:
2dimes wrote:What are ratings?

Low-ranking members of the Navy.

The real Navy or Scientology?

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2020 5:57 pm
by Nut Shot Scott
ratings are dumb.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2020 6:11 pm
by riskllama
Nut Shot Scott wrote:ratings are dumb.


agreed. amusing to read peoples' responses to ratings they have been given sometimes, tho. but largely just stupid & pointless.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2020 12:53 am
by Mr_Adams
Von Blitzen wrote:Given an average rating is 3, the ratings abuse here is the number of people who give everyone 5 stars all round.



Back when they switched from the glorious system of user feedback to the shitty 5 star rating system, I remember trying to use the 3 star is average system and people lost their shit.

Re: vindictive ratings

PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2020 1:53 am
by mookiemcgee
I rate this thread 1 out of 5