A slight discrepancy?
Fri, 2001-10-05 16:46
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A slight discrepancy?
I've just noticed that one of my poems has been rated by ten people - even though only 6 people have read it! I'm no maths whizz-kid, but I'm sure that can't be right. It makes me very suspicious! Could the whole ratings system be nothing but a sham perpetrated by bored editors just to fill the time? Sneaky wee tykes... :)
primate ... what a scandal! ... do you think it works the opposite way too?
Perhaps someone liked it so much they marked it more than once? I must admit to such an unethical practice myself once or twice.....
i think i have found out why primate ... and i apologise for doing the experiment on one of your other poems ... BUT if you select a poem and then repeatedly click on the rating button it will record the rating but not a read for each time the page refreshes ...
what this means primate IS ... that someone has done this to your poem ... a dirty trick ...
I wouldn't be surprised if it did fish... You can't trust anyone these days!
ah - mystery solved! Cheers Fish! It was only rated 2 though, so I guess someone REALLY hated the poem :)
I wish I never bothered to put a rating system on my stuff....it just makes you want to jump off the roof when they get a bad score......(when I first came onto abc, I tried to vote for one of my poems....couldn't though, mores the pity! FOR SHAME!)
Sorry but you have to try!
Primate....I for one, liked your poems..as I told you, so don't you dare point your grubby finger in this direction...o.k?
(I liked the owl one best...)
Ok Linsi - I'll believe it wasn't you this time :)
Seriously though, the way I look at it is that a 1 star rating is much better than no rating at all. At least a negative reaction _is_ a reaction rather than total disinterest. And it's feedback we're all after at the end of the day after all... So no roof jumpings allowed, ok? :)
ALL HAIL PRIMATE!!!!!
We are NOT defined by star ratings are we?
Some more cherries would be nice though.....
Primate, congrats on your bundle of juicy berries
oooh I say!
all@stargate 2.1k
i sneakily underwent the self-star experiment once, all one does is register with two logins then login in and out between reading pieces and self-star to your heart and logins content.
I even 1 starred some of the utter dirge i find myself writing sometimes. If only i could star here at the forum.
I have since removed all the contaminated work from the site including those that were cherried (gripe) as after all it was just a raffelite game; a bull-shite charge in the chinashop front of words that is our pretected art, a species in need of honest preservation. A listing status
those were the time-rich SB days my friend. Now I work to order.
I've also contacted new Ed 'M' 'bout my sad login effeciency sydrome.
I am therefore i spam.
Someone needs to get out more........other than me i mean.
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