[Klondike]

Just curious - has anyone else but me noticed how frequently relatively large threads in the exhibitionist forum suddenly go from a five star rating to a four star, or even a three? This has been happening for about a year or so. You would think these would have enough votes so that one person's vote could not cause this to happen, that is unless that person is giving them one star ratings. To me, it smacks of being an act of mischief or revenge, possibly purpetrated by just one individual, and perhaps someone that (just guessing here) does not like women who do not shave.

I think because those stars are bright and yellow, and unlike thanks, are clearly visible before you open a thread, star ratings matter. Or at least, they give threads a distinctively positive appearance when there are five of them. But even beyond that, and this is the whole problem with them - a one or two or even three star rating is a black eye compared to no stars at all. So I think it would be interesting to explore replacing the star rating with a "thank entire thread" button or something and show that thanks total instead of those stars. I also like the idea of thanking whole threads because a blanket thanks saves you a lot of time when you like every post!

just my ever so humble opinion, and I have no idea if such an idea is possible to implement.

Klondike