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ZubaZ
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THE RATING SYSTEM IS SO STUPID ON WC!!!

..or everywhere

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August 22, 2012 9:32:58 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

I saw this and couldn't help but think of all the rating fights we've had on WC over the years.  

 

I got lost and wandered into the world's creepiest cemetery, where the headstones just had names and star ratings. Freaked me out. When I got home I tried to leave the cemetery a bad review on Yelp, but as my hand hovered over the 'one star' button I felt this distant chill ...

 

It's never worth worrying about in any case.

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Reply #1 August 22, 2012 9:41:46 AM
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Ah...I see you worked it out.....

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Reply #2 August 22, 2012 9:52:00 AM
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Quoting Jafo,
reply 1
Ah...I see you worked it out...

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Reply #3 August 22, 2012 9:58:28 AM
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....oh great....a 'three' ....

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Reply #4 August 22, 2012 9:59:38 AM
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Great chart, Zu. 

I look at it like this: If I rate it at less than a 3/5 in my head, it doesn't get downloaded and used. Site ratings/download counts mean little to me, I either like it or I don't.

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Reply #5 August 22, 2012 10:19:29 AM
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Quoting Wizard1956,
reply 4
Great chart, Zu. 

I look at it like this: If I rate it at less than a 3/5 in my head, it doesn't get downloaded and used. Site ratings/download counts mean little to me, I either like it or I don't.

 

Lol, except the rating system is ten stars here at WC Wiz.  They cut each star in half, so each star is 2 points.  So if you are giving a skin a 3 out of what you thought was a 5, you are actually rating it a 3 out of 10.

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Reply #6 August 22, 2012 11:34:45 AM
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Quoting LightStar,
reply 5

Lol, except the rating system is ten stars here at WC Wiz.  They cut each star in half, so each star is 2 points.  So if you are giving a skin a 3 out of what you thought was a 5, you are actually rating it a 3 out of 10.

Ten ½ stars, if you absolutely have to be picky.

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Reply #7 August 22, 2012 11:43:03 AM
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This made my day!!  Thanks Zubaz!!  Nice find, accurate too. 

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Reply #8 August 22, 2012 11:44:51 AM
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Wait, better yet....     

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Reply #9 August 22, 2012 11:51:27 AM
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Quoting LightStar,
reply 5
They cut each star in half, so each star is 2 points.

Right, which makes a 3 a 6, or  does it make a 6 a 3?

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Reply #10 August 22, 2012 12:25:45 PM
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What leads to rating fights? :-

- what an 'artist' thinks their work is worth

- what it's actually worth

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Reply #11 August 22, 2012 12:43:25 PM
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Quoting Fuzzy Logic,
reply 10
What leads to rating fights? :-

- what an 'artist' thinks their work is worth

  - what it's actually worth

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Reply #12 August 22, 2012 1:21:19 PM
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Quoting Fuzzy Logic,
reply 10
What leads to rating fights? :-

- what an 'artist' thinks their work is worth

- what it's actually worth

Definitely have a few of them here.

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Reply #13 August 22, 2012 1:50:21 PM
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Quoting ,
quoting post

I saw this and couldn't help but think of all the rating fights we've had on WC over the years.  

 



 

It's never worth worrying about in any case.

More noteworthy than the "rating system" is the fact the OP had no misspellings.

, Zu. 

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Reply #14 August 22, 2012 2:39:14 PM
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Quoting Fuzzy Logic,
reply 10
What leads to rating fights? :-

 - what an 'artist' thinks their work is worth

 - what it's actually worth

Spot on, Michael. Especially amongst the wallpaper "artists".

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Reply #15 August 22, 2012 2:42:13 PM
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Spot on, Michael. Especially amongst the wallpaper "artists".

I didn't want to say it myself so directly, but you know what I mean when I say 'artists'

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Reply #16 August 22, 2012 2:43:41 PM
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More noteworthy than the "rating system" is the fact the OP had no misspellings.

It was probably copy and paste from somewhere

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Reply #17 August 22, 2012 2:45:28 PM
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Quoting Fuzzy Logic,
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It was probably copy and paste from somewhere

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Reply #18 August 22, 2012 4:33:28 PM
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I say we make the ratings go all the way to 11.

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Reply #19 August 22, 2012 4:48:22 PM
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I say we make The ratings Public.

Then there would be much more fair ratings overall.

If you stand for what you think, Rate, If not, Just don´t.

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Reply #20 August 22, 2012 5:13:13 PM
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How can a skin get when it has just been uploaded and there's 0 download yet ?

 

 

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Reply #21 August 22, 2012 5:35:39 PM
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Quoting neophil78,
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How can a skin get when it has just been uploaded and there's 0 download yet ?

1) It's a Master skin.

2) A 'friendly-rating'. Someone rates it based on who the uploader is. (See quite a lot of those)

3) 'Drive-by' ratings. Some users find it cool to be high on the raters scoreboard, if this still exists, and just go through the galleries and rate everything as high as possible.

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I say we make the ratings go all the way to 11.

I say we make the ratings go away....

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Reply #22 August 22, 2012 5:48:27 PM
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Quoting Snowman,
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I say we make the ratings go away....

 

I second that notion (and all statistics too since most of them don't work)!

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Reply #23 August 22, 2012 5:48:38 PM
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Quoting Snowman,
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I say we make the ratings go away....

If I'm not mistaken, I believe some of the search filters use ratings as one of the search perameters.

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Reply #24 August 22, 2012 5:57:26 PM
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If I'm not mistaken, I believe some of the search filters use ratings as one of the search perameters.

You are not mistaken...

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Reply #25 August 22, 2012 7:41:54 PM
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I say we do away with star ratings and go with a Pizza rating system... People are much more frivolous with stars than they would be just tossing pizzas around all willy nilly..

 

 

 

 

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