There are tons of dumb comments on this forum. I don't see why that particular post should be rated dumb just because a mod thinks it's dumb. Dislike is far sufficient.
I think the intention of "dumb" is supposed to be Warning Light™ Casually letting the user know mods aren't happy with their content. At least I believe so.
Plus, we don't get notifs on ratings our posts get, so if that was supposed to be a warning, there is big chance we would miss it. Or would we get a notif if a mod rated our posts? ...I wouldn't know though, as a normal poster, since no notifs and it doesn't show up in recent activity.
To see who gave you which rating, look at ratings received (click on your name at the top). However, the mods aren't identified, but if you click on the member's name, you will see a profile, and thus you can identify the mods, if you don't know them already. The ratings are listed from most recent to earlier.
When I “warn” a forum member... I’ll just message them. I don’t waste my time playing “rating” tag with them.
^ ^ I see, I didn't realize there were those options as I usually just go there to change avatar or signature and it has been quite awhile since I needed/wanted to change any preferences.
Oh, I didn't know we can't receive alerts when we get ratings, I thought I just accidentally turned mine off when playing around with alert settings recently.
There is a setting for getting an alert when someone likes your post, but I don’t think it works anymore now that we have the new set of ratings. I have gotten likes without alerts for a while now.
I think when some of you guys were telling the whole world how you can stalk people rating other people on this thread, the mods took that function off. Sad.
I'm late in responding to this, but I meant why the postive ratings don't go towards trophy points. For example, I currently have +537/15/4 but I only got the trophy points for 300 likes. I understand why there are neutral ratings, but I'm wondering why, for example, Agree or Winner doesn't go towards the trophy points because they're obviously positive ratings. Also, that is a bit unrelated and not a critique point but I found it a bit funny, how my last trophy was "You Got Promoted! You finally got promoted to a full-fledged member!" but my actual ranking is still Kenkyuusei
I believe I’ve earned the title... “Forever Kenkyuusei” or “OJS”. Because my old ass ain’t getting “promoted” anytime soon. Might as well “grandfather” myself in.
One of the best ways to garner likes (from what i've seen) is to say something like "The new single is awesome/it totally slays" which I forsee leading to some like-whoring in the future.
Let's try to remember that likes and dislikes are supposed to be a form of feedback on a single post someone makes, not some kind of twisted competition to see who can be the best at the internet or a popularity contest or whatever. Ultimately, ratings you get really aren't that important. Having a lot of likes or dislikes is not going to actually give you anything. A prize doesn't pop out at the end