Wahooo they have made some changes to the board (good and bad). But one of the most prominent ones is the rating system for posts. Naturally the stickies are all rated 4 and 5 stars (or else they wouldn't be good enough to be stickies) but no one really utilizes the rating the system for other posts. Every now and then a really great post comes through and it gets 4 or 5 stars but take a look now....a lot of dull stars that need lit up!
So there are two solutions
1. Everyone start writing AWESOME 5-star-worthy posts (this would be ideal)
2. Start rating posts. Even if you don't reply or just reply with something short. If you can take the time to write a response you can take the time to click on the stars at the top of the page. Yeah some people may get their feelings hurt if their post receives one or two stars but then that will teach them that they need to write something more of value.
If everyone starts using the rating system we will be able to distinguish great posts from bad posts without having to ever read them all--that'd be greatttt....there are some good threads that have many responses and are well-developed but no one has voted on them!
So as Diddy said...."vote or die"
...ok not really....but please vote!
