michal1980 said:Well I'm glad you came to your sense.

I'm not going to praise this.

Some will understand the 'no praise' stance. Some won't. I don't want/need to explain.

Green for you and understood.

MechanicalMan said:Good. Please remember to include a way to undo a "not interested" rating.That's excellent suggestion. Thank you!

This does not deserve praise. It deserves admonishment at most.

Note that we never did hear a reason why it was changed in the first place.

I think the "not interested" function will be great.

So no matter how painful the last 24 hours have been, something positive has come out of this!

What about the rating power...? Will everyone have a power of 1?

Do members have to post if they are going to red flag something?

Have you implemented a way to stop members who only vote negative, or members who are interested in 'hiding' good deals through using negative votes?

LOVE the 'not interested', very, very helpful.

Thanks. My eyes were hurting the past 24 hrs.
I was lost amongst the stars!

darkonus said:I didn't like this new star rating system either. But I still think the older rating system could be vastly improved upon to help people sifting through deals in order to find the better deals more quickly!

As I said in the original thread, and which may have been stated before, I don't know as I wasn't about to read through the entire old thread, but to me the best system is to show 3 different bars next to each deal posted (there's plenty of room for 3 bars in the rating column, one under the other) ... a RED, a GREEN, and an AVERAGE bar showing the average between both RED & GREEN votes! This way we can sort by GREEN and still have those voted with a lot of RED still show at the top of the sort! Or we could sort by the AVERAGE rating, and therefore be able to sort in order of the actual total voting of a deal's worth according to everyones vote!

For instance, even if I sorted the deals according to GREEN ratings, I might see a potential great deal which 100 people GREENED, yet just below the GREEN bar it would show 200 people actually gave the same deal RED, so at least I would be able to immediately see that so many people thought the deal was bad because the RED bar would be right under the GREEN bar showing that contrast, even if it had a large amount of GREEN given and was at the top of the GREEN sorted deal list.

Having an AVERAGE bar will show the GREEN vs RED ratings immediately as well. If there are more negative, then the AVERAGE bar will show as RED and give the number rating just as the old method, and if there are more GREEN, then it will be colored GREEN and once again show the number rating just like the old method used to.

This to me is a good compromise for everyone. It will allow all votes, both negative and positive, and allow us to sort by total GREEN or total AVERAGE.Good suggestion. This would be a great enhancement. If the FW team can do it, awesome! However, I will still be happy if they just keep the good ol' +/- system.

Thanks for listening to our feedbacks, FW staffs!

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Bravo. Good decision.