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Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
Apolyton Duke of Off-Topic

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May 1999
time: 13:18
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Markos please kill the thread rating feature Increase Your PM Length

Markos could you please just kill the thread rating thing? It is hardly used. With one fell swoop you can remove the dropdown box at the bottom right, plus disable all the associated code.
TCO is offline TCO
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Richmond, VA
Jan 1970
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 17:52
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It is almost never used and it looks ugly. But Markos loves it. Look at the convoluted rating system in the links directory.
Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Skanky Bastard Quartermaster
Aug 2001
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 18:05
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Get a bigger avatar today!

Ratings are generally meaningless, and not used often enough by people to give them meaning.

The only exceptions to this rule are:
a) Vels threads, which get 5 stars more often than not. The rating is pointless, cuz everyone knows they should read what he has to say.
b) When threads specifically mention ratings in their title. Then they get really low ratings, because people are reminded to rate the thread, but want to be... funny...

So kill that feature!!

Hydey is offline Hydey
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Mar 2000
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 18:28
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never used it until this thread
Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 19:07
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Remove this text

quote:
 Originally posted by Hydey
never used it until this thread


See, proof

Gramphos is offline Gramphos
ACS Civ III Files Manager, Prince of Development
Chalmers, Sweden
Apr 2001
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 19:21
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

(Some) People use it to rate files in the Files forum.
spartak is offline spartak
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Dec 2000
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 20:19
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I couldn't resist rating the thread.
Ecthy is offline Ecthy
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Mar 2000
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 21:55
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what happened to your mod title, gramphos? Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

this must be the thread with the most ratings ever
DarkCloud is offline DarkCloud
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Jul 2000
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  Old Post 13-04-2002 22:32 Visit DarkCloud<br><img src=/forums/images/staff-icon.gif>'s homepage!
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I never liked it- it is very meaningless.
Gramphos is offline Gramphos
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Apr 2001
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  Old Post 14-04-2002 00:04
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What title?
Wiglaf is offline Wiglaf
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Dec 2000
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Enter the AD-FREE zone

Yeah, trash it.

Mercator is offline Mercator
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Jan 1970
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  Old Post 14-04-2002 01:29 Visit Mercator's homepage!
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Inflate your Upload Space

Yep, it's pretty useless. And it can definitely go when the files finally get their own database.

So who has been awarding pretty much all Apolyton/Community threads 5 stars? Someone who wants to conceal the lack of use of this feature, or someone who wants to force the pro-raters to take this feature down because of its misuse? I smell a conspiracy, or is it that can of spam that has way passed its expiration date?
ixnay is offline ixnay
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Jan 1970
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I noticed that a bunch of the A/C threads were rated, so I went ahead and rated one more...dunno who originally did it tho.
Grrr is offline Grrr
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Dec 2000
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Increase Your PM Length

Don't get rid, but take it out of the Light stylesheet.
Zopperoni is offline Zopperoni
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Dec 2000
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  Old Post 14-04-2002 04:31
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Tired of ads?

quote:
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Don't get rid, but take it out of the Light stylesheet.

Agreed!

And can you add "Last post by" to Light style?

Ecthy is offline Ecthy
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Mar 2000
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  Old Post 14-04-2002 04:39
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Why not use decent Herrenmensch style instead of light style then, Zopper?

Immortal Wombat is offline Immortal Wombat
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Dec 2000
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Full PM-box? Change here!

Use the special style. The popup doesn't appear ( ), but there is still only one ad per page

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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  Old Post 14-04-2002 05:32
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Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

I think the popup doesn't appear because we are on a non-commercial server, thus no "Apolyton gets money" advertisements.
Grrr is offline Grrr
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No paid ads on our server, so no popup.
rah is offline rah
Apolyton Prince of Moderators, Master of Reason
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Jan 1970
time: 23:18
  Old Post 15-04-2002 23:13
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I agree that it should be removed. This is the first thread I've ever rated. For the few people that Gramphos states actually use it, I'm sure they will find an alternative. Wasted bandwidth.

RAH
Dauphin is offline Dauphin
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Jan 1970
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  Old Post 15-04-2002 23:20
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I never rate threads, and never take notice of the rating of a thread.
TCO is offline TCO
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Jan 1970
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  Old Post 16-04-2002 00:20
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:bang head against wall smiley:

Markos loves this thing for some reason. Just like he loves the tracert. (He would marry them if he could)
Ecthy is offline Ecthy
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Mar 2000
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  Old Post 16-04-2002 00:42
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Full PM-box? Change here!

I can't believe this thread has received more ratings than half of the posts made in it...
MarkG is offline MarkG
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thinks about it for 0.9899549 seconds

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