The irony is how much love the FW community has collectively expressed for the old system.

There was such value in seeing individual posts like "both rebates won't fly" but also see it covered in red. That told me to keep reading because the community disagreed with that post.

Without that, I will have to scour entire threads...just like SD and every other side that has always been my second choice to FW.

The only difference is that now you can count the stars instead of measuring the length of the bar. Kind of an improvement.

Not interested is a good idea, but still, I want +/- with NI.

A 5 years old kid can figure out which deal is good and which deal is bad with the old system.

The programmer needs to retake User-Friendly programming.

fish777 said:taf said:atohmc said:So basically, if you want to see the community vote, never vote. Just log out

Then I would say why not have 2 rows of star. ONE for your vote and one for community vote. Why make it so hard for the FW members to use.The problem with logging out is you only get to see 20 deals at a time and no filtering or replying to post without logging in.

Mods, was there ever a user poll/opinion seek for new rating system prior to going live!
If not, it should have been done! It could have save lots of time, effort and agony!

Based on the new rating system, I think the feature is introduced by a bunch of IT developers instead of a business user who understands the internet community!
I do not see any reason why old system shouldn't have worked!

A simple poll was all that needed to figure out the FW community reaction!

It boosts the baseline to 3 stars. I guess op wants see more green/or all green and no red at all.

Obvious problems people already discovered

1. This is NOT movie rating since the DEAL is dynamic and ever changing (like additional coupon/rebate make the deal much hotter). We cannot stuck looking at our own rating. We need to see the community rating even after we vote in case the deal get hotter.

2. How I can see who voted for what? I want to make my own decision of who I trust more. If I see someone created the account today and voted, I personally won't trust their vote as much as those senior member. I can tell with the old rating system but not this.

3. If OK deal means 3 starts, then the rating should start at 3 stars.

4. I think so far most people think the old system still much better than this one. Only thing new is the "Not interested" thing but most people not going to use it unless the post is clear spam. But if it is clear spam, the old system will be all RED and can easily tell anyway.

Stars suck, and this is why. I don't have time to scour the web for the best price for a HDTV, a silk tie, a SATA harddrive, a 9MP camera, a trampoline, etc... That is why I trusted the FW community to rate a deal accordingly with Red/Green. When there is red, you INSTANTLY know it is spam, referrals, or a horrible deal. When you saw green, you know it was maybe worth checking out. Stars stars and stars make NO sense. Ok so now instead of red, ebayers will mark a deal with one star. What's the difference? None! You tried to fix something that a majority of people didn't want fixed. Now bring it back to the old system and figure out a way to IMPROVE it, not replace it with a worse facsimile.

Also, often times a "Deal" that is weak becomes greater with coupons, price adjustments, etc... If I mark a deal "not interested" and then it improves with a price drop or something else, then I will never know about it. I for one will never use the "not interested" unless I see spam, but that was what the RED was doing for me anyways. You just complicated things unecessarily.

My probably worthless $.02 that will fall on deaf ears/eyes.

So why exactly do I want the threads to show my rating anyway? It is just in case I forget what I like?

"Hey, a FAR 42-inch LCD. Pff, who wants that. Oh wait! I gave that 5 stars! Oh yeah, that's good!"

This is the problem. How do I know, at a glance, by looking at the ratings, if something is a crap deal or just not voted on enough yet? At least before I could go by the size of the red flag and I would just keep scrolling to the next thread.