One or two of your stick threads are not that good , but they still get 5 stars......because most of you want new traders to look at 5 star threads.There are some good content threads , but not all of them deserve 5 star ratings.There is room for improvement.
If a thread is a sticky, then t2w made it that way. Just because something's a sticky shouldn't imply that the content is of a particularly high quality. There's certain information that just needs not to get lost, site rules and guidelines etc. if these threads get 5 stars its usually because people are expressing their thanks to the people who took the time to write this stuff.
Do t2w really want people to read the 5 star threads ? I suspect there's a range of opinions depending on who you ask. You talk as if all 5 star threads are the same. You have genuine 5 star threads that are judged as such by long standing members for the contribution the thread has made over time. We have 5 star threads manipulated by vendors, we have 5 star threads simply because the threads become a car crash, and I suspect t2w doesn't want anyone reading them. We have 5 star threads filled with total garbage that appears plausible to the uninitiated.
No one has a clue how they are supposed to vote and use the system anyway !
Is a one star thread supposed to indicate content is below average ? Or does the star imply that the thread is better than average, and worthy of some sort of special recognition ? How is it supposed to work, is anyone told ? or do users have their own interpretation. When is the thread supposed to be judged, as soon as it starts ? After x months when there's a decent sample of posts.
As Tim has pointed out, there are 5 star threads with one vote, and only a handful of posts. theres probably one or two by spammers advertising Viagra that slipped through the moderators net.
The quality of posts is another issue altogether. What happens if quality suddenly improves drastically ? The 5 star post of last year doesn't even warrant a single star on the basis of the improved post quality. The star system is presumably just there to highlight stuff that people think should be brought to the attention of others.
The easy option of course is to delete the thing and forget about it, but maybe there could be benefits if this was done correctly,
Take my posts for example, there are 3 or 4 people here who see the value, and 3 or 4 who have expressed the opinion that they are fertilizer, destroying the site. That's a pretty extreme range of views isn't it ? I suspect that the majority don't have any opinion one way or the other.
When I rate a thread as 5 star, that's saying to 3 or 4 people that I've seen something of real value and quality, its saying to 3 or 4 other people that the thread contains complete garbage and would probably be best off deleted. My vote means different things to different people.
If certain members judge something to be good, then I know its going to be good. If other members rate something as terrible, I know its probably containing absolute gold. That's the problem isn't it, statistically well end up with a dull boring average grey sludge combined from potentially interesting data.
It needs more of a social media style approach. There are a handful of members whose recommendations and likes I'd probably want to check out, and a handful that I'd follow just for the lulz that heir posts generally provide.
People keep asking for this stuff for a reason, but until its available out of a box for the price of a round of drinks, its unlikely to happen.
