DanHack

Australian Skial God
Contributor
Removing the ratings list is nothing but detrimental. The whole point of rating others posts is to publicly show your opinion on something, not give private feedback.

By removing the ability to view ratings, it just enables people to dumb groups of people without the people knowing it.

It also undermines the whole rating system, as know since we don't know who's rating what, Jonathan's agree carries as much weight as Bottiger's or an admins agree.

To the response Larry the Locksmith gave prior to locking
http://www.skial.com/threads/let-us-see-who-rated-peoples-post.34698/page-2#post-389283
I'm just going to close this because:

1.) Alerts tell you who did it
2.) It shouldn't affect who rated you one way or the other

Maybe it will cut down on the "OH LOOK SOANDSO RATED MY POST DUMB. WHAT A DOUCHE."

This is similar to the reddit style. You can see upvotes and downvotes, but you would have to go and hunt the individual users that rated it up or down.
This isn't Reddit. There aren't thousands of anonymous lurkers who 99% wouldn't know who's who.
We know eachother and we want to express our opinion, the whole basis of all these other ratings and the ability to use agrees and etc were cause we didn't wanna publicly quote just to do *rates this agree*

So please, re-enable it and don't fix what isn't broken.
 
This suggestion has been implemented. Votes are no longer accepted.
There was no reason for the other suggestion or this one to be locked but there is also no good reason to make ratings public again... you can personally see who rated you if it means that much to you.

Posts will still get "Agree x4" and "Disagree x1" so you know how folks generally feel about it and that's all that matters.
 
Yeah, not entirely sure if there's something behind this yet.
Has bottiger updated us since?
 
Ratings are meant to show the general consensus of a post, not a specific persons simple opinion. The person whose post it is can see all of their ratings at the link Zebra posted.

Also, how about not making another thread after the other one was locked for a reason? I would appreciate if no one else unlocks this one or the other one. Bottiger can voice his opinion, but it was an intentional change. Any other posts and I'm going to start warning people. Holy hell.

Also, in response to what you said. It WAS broken as you can tell by many people complaining about the ratings before. It wasn't perfect before either. If it's a more insightful opinion, they can express it in a reply and not a rating.
 
I'd still prefer it anonymous, but hey whatever, I can live with it either way.
 
People just don't like change...

If ratings were never public and suddenly were made visible there would be suggestions like this demanding to make them private again. lulz