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Omnimaga	Jun 22 2009, 09:39 PM
Member Posts: 354 Group: Members Member #55,029 Joined: May 21, 2005	Uhm, you don't just tick a box, and forums purpose are to discuss subjects and share your opinion. I'm not sure where you get that from. I assume you never visited Youtube or don't have an account there then. On youtube, people can comment on videos. But Youtube comment system allows registered users to rate up/down comments. The normal purpose of this rating system is to let users judge what comment is constructive and what not. If for example the person just says "you're gay" then it gets rated down and when the person give his point of view on the video and stating why, then it gets rated up. Of course, it's not used for this purpose all the time, but normally it should be this way. On a large forum, if the moderators could view the negatively rated vs positively rated comment ratio of a member, then it would be easier for them to judge if an use annoys others or not for example and judge if he should be banned or not based on the content. Else, post rating can be used in some sort of democratic way to warn users they are causing trouble or something. It's a bit hard to explain and english is not my native language, not to mention such topic often triggered controversy on forums, as some people are extremly against comment rating systems


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