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Star Ratings?
Xero_Chance
Member Posts: 519
What are our star ratings supposed to reflect?
The quality of our posts or our activity? Or something else?
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I wondered that same thing a week ago. Check out the FAQ, it seems to be related to some combination of frequency of visits and density of posts (suggests that it values actual text over whitespace).
There's something about it in the FAQ, but basically it's activity and amount of quality (ie not something like 'Lol') posts over the past month. Your rating can be 1-100, and each star represents 20%
-5% is subtracted for every post of yours that was deleted.
I think they also subtract if you get banned or whatever, I'm not sure.
Also it looks like it decreases over time naturally with inactivity, judging by some of the users I've seen that have years of membership and thousands of posts, but are at novice level.
It only counts the data from the last 30 days.
That means you could have done 800,000 quality posts with not a single one deleted for 4 years straight, then take a month vacationa nd hey! 0 stars.
Hi guys,
You can find information on the User Rank system in our FAQ.
If your rank goes down, can you approve it again?
My question is, what about our REWARDS for being such high ranking posters. I'd like a robotic monkey, a plush crossdressing tyrannosaurus, a large cardboard cut out of Bill Murphy dressed as a rodeo clown, a battery powered battery charger.... I mean, we work hard for our.... star... .. ratings?
i think its not about how much you post it calculates the time you are just logged in wich is stupid and it goes down when you are not. atleast it use to be like this.
I assume you mean improve and yes, I stopped posting for a while and was down to 3-stars or less, now I'm back up to about 4 I think
And yes reading the FAQ just logging in each day helps improve your rating
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
You sure can! Just keep visiting and keep posting good stuff and you'll see your rank go up.
Or ..... you can become a community manager and somehow always have five stars .. I smell conspiracy.
"Gypsies, tramps, and thieves, we were called by the Admin of the site . . . "
Everytime a user trolls or flames and loses a star it's because I siphoned it from their soul. "Your star is mine!"
You heard it here first folks, MikeB isthe forum equivelant of Shang Tsung.
I can't say I'm surprised by this development.
LOL!! That must be awesome. I wonder if Mr Bitton quotes the evil MK voice every time he removes a post."FINISH HIM!!!"
"Gypsies, tramps, and thieves, we were called by the Admin of the site . . . "
He's a god damb succubus