Who's Dropping all my Ratings ?

Wednesday, January 7, 2004 by fivesballs | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I know this has nothing to do with the recent problems that have occured with the site but... someone went through my library and dropped all my ratings within the past couple of hours !!! Why would someone do this to me ? not only have i lost over 3,000 dls/Many comments and some ratings because of the recent problems but now this... I mean it's hard for me to buy a dl/Rating or comment ..I understand thier are no answers but i just don't understand why someone would do this?(Someone make me understand the motive) I try to ignore ratings but 10's are 5's/ 7's are 4's Very discouraging to say the least And i guess i just wanted to say i'm well aware of it and not to happy At All
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horiz0n
Reply #21 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:31 PM
I think it's fine the way it's set up, just needs more participation

horiz0n
Reply #22 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:32 PM
to #13, yes but how do you know it's ratings abuse and not someone giving an honest rating that is lower than it was. Just because someone rates a piece of work bad doesn't mean it's abuse. There are plenty of things in this site deserving of a 1, and thats not directed at you.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:38 PM
True WOM,they all need to be saved,maybe just not counted,so future lower or higher rates would take their place in the 'not counted' spots.Like I said,might be a prob to implement ,I dont know anything about coding.hehe,Then again something would have to have at least 3 rates,I still have stuff with the original moderator rating.

kongit
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:40 PM
yes horiz0n but, if a skin has a rating of 8 then something is amiss for somebody to give it a 1 unless that skin has very few ratings (which might mean the ratings have been padded by friends...not pointed at anybody). So again more people need to start rating. Its like voting if you don't vote then somebody you don't like and is not good for the nation will get into office. It doesn't matter your objections to the process, your lack of integrity to actually rate something based on your own opinion, or the fact that you like to stay conservative. Rating is in the best interest of the site. And to set up a high/low cutoff one would only need to save the current rating, the number of ratings, the highest rating, and the lowest. not every single rating

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:54 PM
Travis you have to save all ratings or 1 person could rate something multiple times,or if only allowed to rate once,that person couldnt re-evaluate a piece after an update or a change of mind.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 10:57 PM
It only takes 1 rating of a 1 to change 7 8's to a 7.hehe,Did that make any sense?

horiz0n
Reply #27 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:05 PM
right but some things deserve low scores, some things deserve high scores. It shouldn't matter if a 1 can change an 8 to a 7, it's supposed to. People are starting to sound more like they want the ratings to just be put to 6-10 because anytime someone gets anything less than a 6 they feel they have been "wronged."

Jafo
Reply #28 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:09 PM

It's fairly easy for an admin to check a specific individual's rating history....and alarm bells tend to ring when you find a large number of works say, rated 7, 8 or 9 as averages, when the individual's ratings are all '1'...it means the consensus is at odds with the individual and one asks 'why?'.

If a work has 10 ratings, all 'high' except for one....that's odd.

If two works are in that boat....that's suspicious.

If all an artist's works are so...then questions are raised about whether it's taste or vindictiveness on the part of the rater.

As for 'losing' ratings after the crash, one of mine went from 10 to 6 [sniff].....but life goes on...


horiz0n
Reply #29 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:16 PM
Personal vendetta ratings would be near destroyed if people could see who gave the ratings, but I'd hate to think how many problems would come from making it that way instead.

kona0197
Reply #30 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:17 PM
What would help is if more people rated skins. I know there are a lot of people with the ability too


I can rate. But I know not how to fairly rate skins other than the ones I downloaded.

horiz0n
Reply #31 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:20 PM
things you don't use are often hard to rate. However, walls, icons (od, ip, and otherwise), bootskins, things like that only need a look for the most part.

kongit
Reply #32 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:20 PM
you are not supposed to rate the ones you don't download. at least thats my opinion

horiz0n
Reply #33 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:22 PM
there's not much of a supposed to about it...more of a do or don't

horiz0n
Reply #34 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:24 PM
...though the deciding factor usually seems to be, take time to or keep moving on. For the most part, things only get rated if they are really good, or really bad. Which makes the default 6 all the move necessary and accurate.

kongit
Reply #35 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:31 PM
Yes making that assumption about the general body of raters is true, but it would be far better if people would only rate what they download and have actually seen what its like. I have found many skins innacuratly rated because the raters only looked at the preview. I have noticed several in the bootskin section where the preview isn't 16colors.

horiz0n
Reply #36 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:35 PM
things like windowblinds, desktop object themes, winamp skins, can't be completely accurately rated one way or the other unless installed and looked at with their own two eyes

kona0197
Reply #37 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:40 PM
Here is another reason I do not rate: If the persons work I rated thinks I did not rate his work like he thinks it should have been rated, that person can rate my stuff even lower. I only have one 8 amonst a bunch of 4's so I really don't want to piss anyone off.

kongit
Reply #38 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:44 PM
what? nobody knows you rated their work. I think the admins might, but us normal people can't see who rated their work.

kona0197
Reply #39 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:46 PM
yes but i like the leave good comments as well!

kongit
Reply #40 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 11:51 PM
If that person goes and rates yours low because you rated theirs low for a good reason, then they are in the fault. They shouldn't do that.

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