New Feature: ChocoRate - Rate Other Members!
 

Back by popular demand and the constanting bugging reminding by certain people (Miles), the User Rating system is back! I had to rewrite everything again from scratch even though the functionality is pretty similar to our previous version.

Here are some details about it:

• You can disable ratings by going into User Options and scrolling to the bottom of the list.
• You need at least 10 posts to start rating other members.
• You need at least 4 ratings to view who rated you.
• The entire ratings system is contained in the user's profile.
• User ratings are displayed next to their post and in their profile if enabled.
• A top rated members section will be added later on as ratings are given out.

Although I have tested this feature as much as I could there might be a few bugs remaining. Let me know if you find any! Enjoy!

I love you.

Also, I just rated you a five for that. Holler.

Yay! I less than three bobo. I will rate you a 5, and Capo as well just for being in this thread.

Yeah, I'm voting everyone in this thread a 5 just because.

Oh yeah, if you already gave someone a rating and you rate again, it just updates the rating you gave them!

Awesome, you're on a roll, bobo!
Now for the "My Posts" link on the forum menu :).

What a surprise, I was wondering why there are 5 dots under my avatar.
Might as well start passing around 5 ratings while its fresh!

Oh yeah bobo, great job with all the additions so far!

Awesome! ChocoPie and now this. bobo is on a roll =)

I like how you posted this at such an odd hour to avoid the drama that will ensue because of it. :tpg:

About time you installed this. Last crash we had it was installed before public registration was opened. =p

Thanks for this. But a quick suggestion, if I may.

Can you just....you know, not do that.

Popularity lists around here tend to create far too much shit. Remember "Most Viewed Journals"?

How come sometimes when I go to someone's profile to rate them it tells me I rated them a 5 already?

Also, thanks to this thread I know why I can't check who rated me. It's a little funky to have it just pop you back onto your profile without actually telling you what happened.

Indeed, the "You Rated" is very buggy yet. I rated you a 5, and it shows up on other profiles. Then when I rate somebody else some other rating (like a 1), the overall rating does go down, but the "you rated" does not change. It stays at whatever I rated the first person at.

Also, clicking 'remove' changes the overall rating and # of ratings properly but again the "you rated" is still messed up and doesn't disappear. At least you can't continually remove ratings from people until they're in the whole...

I also proceeded to view somebody's "who voted" list while there were only 3 people on it.

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7622/whorated9bq.jpg

So, the "Who Voted?" link doesn't work at all on my Mac using both Safari and Firefox. It does, however, work in IE 5.2, which should tell you that there's something dreadfully wrong going on.

Besides the fact that I'm using a Mac.

Oh, one more thing if I may be a dink and ask for something.

Can the tooltip that appears when you hover over your rating change from whatever it currently is to how many votes you have, like it used to be?

I don't know if this has anything to do with the ratings system, but what is this new 'Send a pager message to...' thing? Like, what does it do? I don't want to use it myself yet, since I don't know what it actually does.

Well, apparently bobo has added a feature called ChocoPager. Until he makes a thread, though, I'm holding off on my complaints about it.

EDIT - And just as quickly as it appeared, it's gone.

In that case, BOBO:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...s/438c147f.jpg

There's a typo! It should be "system"! :)

Well, apparently we can still send pages but just the "Pager messages" thing is gone. That's good anyway, it stretched the top bar farther than I'm used to seeing.

Me too. When I see it, I'm reminded of something shitty like yahoo... :(
I appreciate your efforts though, bobo.

EDIT What happened to :sick:?

I've got a load of complaints about pager already.

Well, the thing about pages is that they're instantaneous and grab your attention. The PM dialog has never worked properly for me, Firefox always has blocked the damn popup so I have to click like 4 times to get to my PMs. So pages I'm already liking.

Fix your firefox. Just because your browser isn't configured properly doesn't mean we all have to suffer from this constant barrage of what's going to be insanity for a few days.

Did you add "http://www.gamingforce.com" to your pop-up whitelist?

Okay, viewing ratings works now.

In that the pop-up comes up. Like VG, I can view the ratings of people who only have three.

Hey how do we put links in our sig so we can have people rate us in there? You use to be able to do this.

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/me...pdatedrating=0
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/me...pdatedrating=1

Try the top link and see if it gives Acer a 5 rating.
Or try the 2nd and see if it gives him a 4.

There's no way for me to know, since apparently I rated him a 2 no matter what.

Actually, you can tell by watching the overall rating. That DOES change.

And from what I was seeing, it doesn't work. That's the only way I see that it could have been done. Maybe somebody can figure out something I can't.

I really wish I could see what other people rated me, as in the number, but apparently that's never gonna happen.

We were complaining about that before. On one hand it would make people be honest, but on the other hand sometimes people just don't want to disclose who they favor and who they don't.

Maybe we can have an option to "allow people to see what I rate people" in the User CP?

I guess I'm the only one who's afraid of this little smart feature, right? :(

That's cool! This has always been one of GFF's coolest features, nice to see it back!

Yay it's back~ I rate you a 5 now, okay?

Yay, ratings!

Would it be possible to make it so that when you move your cursor over the little boxes, it'd pop up a text that shows you how many people have voted like it used to? That was a lot handier than showing only the average.

Posting here to get in on the voting action. Also the "Who Voted?" link doesn't work for me.

Hey wow, thanks for making this, Bobo. Like someone said above, I'd also like to see who voted for me and what vote they gave me too, along with a little note on why they gave me that particular rating. That'd probably take too much work though, so I'm fine leaving it the way it is.

Hmm it seems one person voted for me already. I wonder who it is.

Wahaha, somehow I feel bad now. I just took some time and gave dozens of people a rating, who I think are worth something above three, and I know that I still missed a lot of them, but since I also use ratings besides five and one, I destroyed so many 5.0 scores, it's unbelievable. Sorry, not everyone is amazing. And I'd be more pleased if you'd all rate you in a more realistic way.

*awaits acts of revenge* ='D

Glad to have this back. As others have said, though, it would be nice to be able to see who rated you what.

The who rated you what would ruin the rating system as every rating would be based on "well, shit, he rated me a 2 so I'm gonna rate him a 2 too even though I think he's an okay guy and I'd probably give him a 4". Makes it all meaningless for the people who don't just vote everyone a 5.

Why won't it let me remove the vote for myself? And I didn't even vote for myself in the first place...

If people are anal and keep track of their rating and who voted for them like every 5 seconds. :\

ChocoPie, Ratings... It's like old times again! Hooray, and thanks, bobo! Now I can go fanboy my favorite users again. Seriously, though, thanks a lot. You're really bringing back a lot of our favorite features. Woot.

I still want to know what the code is. What VG gave me I think just turns adds or removes the rating you give a person. That's not what I want. I want for people to click 1 to 5 in my sig to rate me.

^

That who voted you what thing is yet another recipe for disaster and potential BS if you ask me. I'm sure some people would get SUPER anal over it or something if they got a 4 from one of their friends instead of a 5.

1) We have talked about this many times in the past and decided that showing ratings defeats the purpose of the rating system. People will just vote people the ratings they received.

2) You cannot vote directly from a link anymore. You need to do it from the user's profile.

Awwww... we can't really? Damn. I'll have to remove that bit of code I've been toting for over a year now. :(

This would require too many SQL queries per thread page load so it would add a considerable amount of processing to the GFF server.

I second this'un. Was curious about it m'self =d

Rats =I

Apparently it's still possible to go about and hand out a bunch of ratings without allowing others to rate you back.

I thought pretty much everyone agreed that was a glitch in the old system that badly needed to be fixed. Except it never happened. But today, you can make it happen, bobo. Seriously. To hell with the cowards. Make it so someone needs to have ratings enabled on themselves to rate others, and so the ratings they have submitted don't count anymore if they suddenly choose to disable them. Either you're in the system, or you're out.

A few years ago, a member who was eventually banned gave out 1s to everyone who flamed him in his own thread. Of course, he had ratings turned off for him. So I like Face's idea.

I love this part the best! Thanks, bobo! You earned your 5! :)

I don't know much about programming, but wouldn't it be hard to make it remove all of someone's votes from the database every time they emo out and decide to turn off their ratings? Maybe thats why this never got changed...

Wahaha again, I love this rating system. Had 4.65 with eleven votes and now I have 4.25 with thirteen votes. I don't know if some people suddenly decided to change their vote from 4 or 5 to something about two, or if the last two voters were disappointed, since I gave them a "devastating" four. But well, whatever. ;_;

All it has to do is track who each person voted for. It wouldn't take up much space and the only time those stats would ever be used is to handle this case. Then it would take no time at all.

And if a person turns off their ratings, that tracking makes it easy to readd all their ratings again when they turn it back on.

If thats how it works then I fully support this addition. :3