John W. - What are the stars for?

[Mike M.]

What do the stars on the subject line indicate?

[Chuck S.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

What do the stars on the subject line indicate?

Heading at the top of the column indicates "Rating"...i.e. how valuable this thread was to readers.

You can "vote" for the usefulness or interest level of any thread you want, and the forum software computes an average of all those voting. For example, if only one person thinks the thread is really great and votes "five stars", then the thread's "rating" is five stars. If another person thinks the same thread is stupid, and votes "one star", the average rating would be "three stars", etc.

It's a device that could save us wasting a lot of time reading uninteresting threads, er...I mean if there were any ...but virtually no one avails themselves this opportunity or expends the effort to rate our peers' threads. I tried it for awhile, but it wasn't catching on, and I quit doing it...easier just to scan the first few sentences to see the direction of a thread.

[Terry M.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Mike,

Not to take John's job -- trust me I couldn't do it.

When you read the posts in the thread -- there is a tool bar that is right above the first post. One of the options is "rate this thread." Click on that radio button and you get the choice of one through five stars. I don't know how many folks have to rate the thread, or if others can up or downgrade the rating, but that is how one does it.

[Terry M.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Chuck did you change the stars as a test.... or were you just playing with me?

Oh wait -- maybe I better rephrase that. AH, NOT.
Let's see what the censors do with that.

[Chuck S.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Chuck did you change the stars as a test.... or were you just playing with me?

Oh wait -- maybe I better rephrase that. AH, NOT.
Let's see what the censors do with that.

Uh...DEFINITELY not me, er, "playing with you". Must have been someone else, uh, you know, diddling with you.

Probably Mike verifying that my math was correct...(5 + 1) / 2 = 3...Stars, that is.

[Mike M.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Thanks, Guys!
All this and I'm still trying to figure out how to place a picture next to my name on the posts.
HaND

[Gary C.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Mike, that's called an "avitar" and you access it via your User Profile. Gary....

[Mike M.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Thank you, Gary.
I'm all over it.
HaND

[Chuck S.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Thanks, Guys!
All this and I'm still trying to figure out how to place a picture next to my name on the posts.
HaND

Click on User Profile (in tool bar under "Welcome, Mike Murray (25129)",

Click on "Edit Avatar",

Click on radio button for "Custom Avatar"

Go to second address window and browse for desired file on your computer,

Download file to NCRS Technical Discussion Board,

QED.

[Ray G.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Five Stars for you Mike.

[Mike M.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Thank you, Ray
You are too kind.
Good to know that "Ol' Blue" gets a little better every time we see it.
HaND

[Ray G.]

Re: John W. - What are the stars for?

Hello Mike;

Good name "Ol Blue"

Fits the Corvette and the people.

Thanks

Ray