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Teddy:
You may have noticed our new post ratings. Suggested by PROXIUS, implemented by Loose Cannon.
Familiarize yourself with the icons because they are kind of faded under the post, and they are more than one can expect.
In your profile are listed how many of which you got.
The posts are not showing the ratings they got. Only after you rate you are offered to see a list of rating. In this regard it works like voting.
Also:

* you can't rate a post twice even if it is with a different rate
* you can't not change your rate once rated
* you can't not unrated   
   
   
Icon Meaning Like Dislike Agree Disagree Funny Sad Winner Informative Love Shocking Optimistic Creative Old Controversial Dull

PROXIUS:
It is very beautiful. I hope everybody will find it useful.

RidgeWatcher:
Hello Teddy.

Did Proxius recommend these specific post ratings or did the administrators have any choice to choose or dismiss individual post rating icons. The reason I am asking is because per this forum's rules were are not supposed to insult or project sarcasm to other user's posts. It is always O.K. to disagree and I am by no means the virtue police by any means, but if we have rules against about telling a poster that their post is "dumb" then should we post rating icon that says this symbolically?

Teddy:
Who says you can't say that a post is dumb? Of course you can. There is no police on this forum. We do not hate, sarcasm is ok.
The ratings are a much shorter way to say that you like or dislike something, without having to reply, often quoting the whole previous post, just to remark something with one word. In this case you have a little more than like and dislike but they are all ok. Shortens the threads and it is fun. It is proven nowadays to be the lazy way of communication through social media. I don't like social media but I will not engage in war against it. People use ti. In this case you have a little more than like and dislike but they are all ok. I don't understand your concern.

Teddy:

--- Quote from: RidgeWatcher on July 23, 2020, 05:06:07 PM ---per this forum's rules were are not supposed to insult or project sarcasm to other user's posts. It is always O.K. to disagree and I am by no means the virtue police by any means, but if we have rules against about telling a poster that their post is "dumb" then should we post rating icon that says this symbolically?

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I checked - I can remove the "dumb" icon, but I missed the moment when we decided we should not tell a post, not the poster, that it is "dumb". It is a big difference between attacking the post and the poster. Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. But even the brightest of all geniuses can say dumb things, even sometimes on purpose.

What do the rest think, of you get a "dumb" rating on your post, will this offend you?
A "dumb" rating on your post would not at any way project to your persona, unless you decide so. One "dumb" rating will balance with 2 "likes". Most of the ratings are positive. Anybody else feeling threatened by having the option other members rating their post "dumb"?

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