"Count Your Lucky Stars"

oozae · Post by **oozae** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:06 am

I have noticed some threads have stars, so I would like to ask some questions: What do these stars indicate, how do you vote for a thread and can you only vote for particular threads?

Yours appreciatively
Oozae

Coronatus · Post by **Coronatus** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:14 am

They indicate the thread rating. Click on Rate Thread to vote on a thread.

oozae · Post by **oozae** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:21 am

[QUOTE=Coronatus]They indicate the thread rating. Click on Rate Thread to vote on a thread.

[/QUOTE]Thanks

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:51 am

What is it good for? I never pay attention to them. I think it's useless and they could as well be gone.

Nasuke · Post by **Nasuke** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:09 am

[QUOTE=ik911]What is it good for? I never pay attention to them. I think it's useless and they could as well be gone.[/QUOTE]

Yeah but what if there are really good threads, like the Citadel for example? I'd rate it.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:47 pm

[QUOTE=ik911]What is it good for? I never pay attention to them. I think it's useless and they could as well be gone.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. It doesn't serve any purpose.

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:40 am

I'm sure it was just included in vBulletin and there was no reason to get rid of it. I don't pay attention to it, but I do rate threads that I like or hate. I think it's maybe useful for really new users. Though post count in threads is just as big of an indicator of how popular a thread is, not how useful though. It may be more useful in the game forums than SYM though.

ik911 · Post by **ik911** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:02 pm

[QUOTE=jopperm2] It may be more useful in the game forums than SYM though.[/QUOTE]
You might have a point there, because I never visit those.

Really, I don't watch the ratings at all in SYM. I just read a bit, and another bit, and a bit more, and then I decide whether or not the thread is interesting enough to keep reading it.

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:07 am

[QUOTE=fable]Agreed. It doesn't serve any purpose.[/QUOTE]
It does! If you're here for the first time, you'd probably start with reading more popular threads, wouldn't you? (The thing that they're not rated automatically according to how frequently they're visited is another matter

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fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:56 am

[QUOTE=Brynn]It does! If you're here for the first time, you'd probably start with reading more popular threads, wouldn't you? [/QUOTE]

Nem.

If I was looking for game information, I'd start by posting threads for what I needed, or looking at threads of specific interest to me. If I'm just interested in SYM, I'll again look for thread titles that interest me. Typically, very popular threads in spam-allowed forums means threads that are just open BS sessions.