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In theory, ratings are an incentive not to be a jerk and to produce high signal to noise posts, but for that to work in practice, people would have to care enough not to be douchey, and the ratings would have to be based on the quality of the posts and not whether the reader agreed or didn’t agree with them.  I agree with those who said that the old system (rating posts rather than people) was better.  That made it easier to skip low quality posts, without the system being able to be manipulated to send an individual poster into the red undeservedly.  And, though I disagree with Teejers a lot, he adds a lot to the board and certainly doesn’t deserve a negative rating.

BC

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In theory, ratings are an incentive not to be a jerk and to produce high signal to noise posts, but for that to work in practice, people would have to care enough not to be douchey, and the ratings would have to be based on the quality of the posts and not whether the reader agreed or didn’t agree with them.  I agree with those who said that the old system (rating posts rather than people) was better.  That made it easier to skip low quality posts, without the system being able to be manipulated to send an individual poster into the red undeservedly.  And, though I disagree with Teejers a lot, he adds a lot to the board and certainly doesn’t deserve a negative rating.

BC