Haku2 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Is there a reason why topic ratings were removed from the topic listing in IP.Board 3.2? I thought topic ratings were supposed to be used as a guide in knowing whether a topic was worth viewing or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jυra Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I don't take topic ratings seriously, so I don't see ratings as a feature that needs to be included built in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haku2 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 I don't take topic ratings seriously, so I don't see ratings as a feature that needs to be included built in. Topic ratings are a feature in IP.Board 3.2 though. There should at least be a setting to toggle topic ratings in the topic listing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I think some one else suggested bringing it back and ya I can not disagree. Although on some times jura is probably correct in saying rating is not a serious thing. It is not even used on my site though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jυra Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I can't imagine someone comparing topics or deciding on which topics to read based on thread ratings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Indeed you are correct. I hardly use it or pay attention to what it shows. However I can see it being useful for some sites. Like review sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 In my experience, if topics are ever rated, they're rated 1 star if a person is trolling, and 5 stars if a person decides to rate the topic at all. In other words, mostly pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossed Keys Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Sorry to bring up an old post, but there is a dearth of information about the thread ratings. I am looking to convert from my vB site and have test installations of IPB3.2 and XenForo to evaluate. Thread ratings are useful for forums where each post is a review, since the rating can be used as the product score. In vB3 for all its creaking old age, thread ratings are shown in the thread list and can easily be re-sorted according to rating. vB4 however ditches the easy sorting options and hides them in the lower menu, although the ability to sort by rating still exists. In IPB3.2, despite having the option to rate threads in the thread itself, the rating no longer shows on the list of threads and there is no option to sort threads by rating, so I really do wonder what the point of it is. And XenForo has no rating options at all. Isn't it funny how progress to some people (removing bloat and features they don't use) can to other people seem like backward steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallieJo Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 This is one drawback in using IPB for one of our sites. We need to sort topics by ratings for reviews created. VB does indeed have this and it works great. But, we are trying to do most things in IPB for one project and now our review forums are pointless if they cannot be sorted by ratings. Can someone please explain how we can add this to the template if rating search/sort is even available to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 not sure if this helps, all I could find. thought there was a ratings mod but..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallieJo Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 not sure if this helps, all I could find. thought there was a ratings mod but.....http://community.inv...member-reviews/ Thank you. I seen that app, but the demo was/is down. I would prefer a sorting option by ratings for the forums as I am trying not to install too many "big" third party apps since I have no idea how the long term commitment of them would be. Coming from VB and losing many great addons over the years when developers stop supporting them, I am trying my best not to fall back into that. I may just install one of my VB licenses for the forum's reviews area. Besides, I do miss some of VB's features that I could use. Just sucks that there will be yet another register/login for my current project. Another option would be to use PhotoPost reviews. I hacked that before to make it work for my needs. Too bad I'd have to do the template customizations to fit the IPB look since it doesn't automatically do it like it does with VB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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