The vote button is missing?


Also, what happened to the thread ratings? Threads that had double-digit ratings are now down to single-digit ratings.

nunaliorte said:
It will probably no longer be feasible to use ratings as a personal filter to weed out posts you don't wish to see, and it is not intended as such. The ratings system is meant to be a community filter, not a personal tool.

Previous uses of negative voting, and what you should do now:

i like the neg votes bc like above poster, it filters out the spam and newbies reposts. now i have to read every post and scan myself. NOT a good improvement.

I see a problem in this kind of rating system.

Obviously not everyone know what price is hot for certain item. And people in FW vote on item when they don't even closely keeping track of the price (or recent deal) of that item.

For example, a lot of people vote positive just for the effort (like those Amazon Friday deal post) instead of real Deal in the post.

If the price is not hot, even if 10 persons vote green because they think it is hot (or just thank for the effect), usually there will be enough people to counter those vote so the rating is closed to neutral (neither green nor red). This is how rating system supposed to work.
But in this new system, you just need to have 10 friends sign up from school, and come in to vote green, then it will always look like positive (and hot deal). But in fact the price may be just ok.

Making this rating system useless to find out if the deal is good deal or ok deal. Let's say it again, not all member know what price is HOT DEAL and need other FW members that do know the hot deal price to balance out the vote.

nunaliorte said:don't like the deal? --> walk on by, not much value in replying and bumping a crappy deal
So we can't neg it, and we also shouldn't reply? Great idea! And what about when someone posts a deal that involves a scam site or something? People who simply react to the price can give the thread a positive rating, but people who know that buying from that retailer is a bad idea can't counter. People can reply (and bump the thread), but that doesn't necessarily have the same effect. It's also more effort for members.

Removing negative voting is just another stupid, unneeded change. Oh well.

Yeap, I agree with Fish777. Suddenly FW became just like every other deal site out there.

upNdown said:Yeah, this is lame. Any abuses of the negative ratings could have only resulted in a few hurt feelings (which is silly). If something really was a decent deal, then isolated negative "abuses" would have little effect on the overall rating.

Perhaps instead of getting rid of the negative ratings, you should get rid of the people who for whatever reason (thin skin, ratings obsession) couldn't handle a few negative votes.

I agree this new system bites

scrabbler said:nunaliorte said:scrabbler said:The vote button is missing?It says "boost rating" now.I don't see "boost rating". Where is it located?It's only available to "super-secret" people!

this is bad...