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I am rating the hangers’ forum from the beginning to current. What I am noticing is a lot of those old posts have 5 star ratings- probably because there were very few posts to rate then. Some of them deserve 5 stars, but a lot by our current state of knowledge do not. Thunder, will you be picking an expert or two to determine what finally goes into the best posts- or is anything with 5 stars, including these old posts, going to be put in there?

Also, I am not only using your rating criteria, but also using a poor, fair, average, good, excellent criteria. Some of the posts are on topic, but they deserve 1 star, etc. I hope this is OK :)

noticed that to on newbie forum (doing that first, boy its slow going). Some are rated 5 stars by a single poster, so if you at a three star rating the average comes down to 4 which is still higher than some should be but once a couple of other people have rated them they will hopefully find their level.

Thunder was talking about editing out the off topic stuff, so I guess he’ll be rechecking every 5 star thread :)

I was hoping that Bib and a couple of senior hangers would edit the 5 star hanging posts, and avocet8 and a couple of senior pumpers would edit those 5 star posts. The main member forum could be edited by a couple of long time jelquers as well as T- and the other forums could be edited by their moderators.

For Thunder to recheck every thread is putting a lot of work on one guy- he has enough to do just running the forum. I would hope the experts and forum moderators would divide the load so T can concentrate on all the work he already has to do :)

The other day you said click thru’s move T’s up in the search engine. Does rating threads do the same thing?

Hey 2,

I won’t have a problem doing a final edit. When I copy the threads to the Best forum, I have to open them one at a time any way.

The click thrus won’t effect our search engine rating. They will probably put a load on the bandwidth somewhat this month, but shouldn’t cause any problems.

I can’t see any reason to do a Best Forum for anything but the Hanger’s and the Main. Rating the threads in the other forums should be good enough. Then a guy could just sort by rating and take it from there. Maybe in the future, if the other forums get a lot larger.

I am glad you mentioned we will only have a best of from the hangers and main forums, I will get those rated first :)

I think we should add a zero star rating for the questions that are asked over and over and over again. Just a thought :) J/K- just gets old reading the same stuff over and over again…

2,

You’re right that some long time hangers would be good to look over the hanging posts, but you seem to have plenty of knowledge and to me its so obvious when a post is 5 star even with my limited knowledge.

I agree its a lot of work for thunder :(

Covered better elsewhere seems appropriate in place of a zero star.

Thunder,

Does that mean I’m wasting my time with the newbie forum :| took the order from another post of yours on the other thread, maybe I mangled it in my head. Ok I’ll move to main.

The zero star was just a joke. If we used that there would be no way to see that a thread was rated :) Maybe a half-star :D

Hey memento,

I probably did mumble something about starting with one of the smaller forums. I think the two largest forums are the ones to put our effort into. They are the ones that will need a Best Posts Forum, archive or whatever the hell we end up calling it. The smaller forums won’t need anything other than rated, and that can be done at a later time.

2,

hmm, obviously my sense of humour is switched off today. I have seen thread i’d like to give minus ratings to though.

thunder,

sorry for mistaking a mumble for policy. I’ve bookmarked my place on the newbie fourm and am moving on to main.

LMAO memento- as punishment THUNDER has to rate the newbie forum :D

After pointing out the amount of work thunder has to do that hardly seems fair.

He deserves it after sending you into newbie hell :D

Watch out, you’ll be getting red writing on your posts :)