Rating a thread?

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Rating a thread?

Woolly · Senior Member

Click on the stars in the top right hand side below the 'Start a new topic' & 'Reply' buttons. If you want it to be 2 stars click on the 2nd star across & so on.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Never noticed this before ... so, how does one "rate" a thread?

... and I agree - Pick this Place should be more than two stars

Cheers - John

rockylizard · Guru

Woolly wrote:
Click on the stars in the top right hand side below the 'Start a new topic' & 'Reply' buttons. If you want it to be 2 stars click on the 2nd star across & so on.

Gday...

There's nuffin under those buttons on my 'view' cry

Cheers - John

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Ah yes, found it. thank you Woolly. Its on the right of the top line with the thread title.

EDIT.. Help, we need more raters! The machine seems to Average the number of stars people rate it, its still only 2.5! .

-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Monday 12th of May 2014 04:21:54 PM

Woolly · Senior Member

Yep, that's it

& now it's up to 3

-- Edited by Woolly on Monday 12th of May 2014 04:21:55 PM

-- Edited by Woolly on Monday 12th of May 2014 04:22:54 PM

grill n chill · Senior Member

When using the ipad an I the only one with fat fingers? The tiny little stars are differcult to select correctly,just as changing from page to page is. Don't mean to complain it's just an ipad thing.

Kendo · Senior Member

Hahaha,

I have a Toolmaking/engineering background. I must admit I had a completely different idea of what the topic was before I read the first comment *Giggle*, *Blush* :)

Legendts · Senior Member

grill n chill wrote:
When using the ipad an I the only one with fat fingers? The tiny little stars are differcult to select correctly,just as changing from page to page is. Don't mean to complain it's just an ipad thing.

Have you tried the two finger zoom? I use it often to get the little things bigger.....I am talking iPad folks biggrin . Getting in first before someone else does smile

rockylizard · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
Woolly wrote:
Click on the stars in the top right hand side below the 'Start a new topic' & 'Reply' buttons. If you want it to be 2 stars click on the 2nd star across & so on.
Gday...
There's nuffin under those buttons on my 'view'
Cheers - John

Gday...

I repeat as above .... anyone care to try and explain why ?? confuse confuse cry

cheers - John

Cupie · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
rockylizard wrote:
Woolly wrote:
Click on the stars in the top right hand side below the 'Start a new topic' & 'Reply' buttons. If you want it to be 2 stars click on the 2nd star across & so on.
Gday...
There's nuffin under those buttons on my 'view'
Cheers - John
Gday...
I repeat as above .... anyone care to try and explain why ??
cheers - John

Same for me ... I see the extra column in the 'general forum main page .... but no stars, none within the actual thread either.

dorian · Guru

These are the rating stars that you should be seeing:

www.sparkimg.com/forum/small_star_off.png
www.sparkimg.com/forum/small_star.png

Cupie · Guru

dorian wrote:
These are the rating stars that you should be seeing:

www.sparkimg.com/forum/small_star_off.png
www.sparkimg.com/forum/small_star.png

Those links don't work for me either

dorian · Guru

Perhaps your browser can't render images in PNG format???

Can you see this image?

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Sparky_the_Fire_Dog.png

Alternatively, could something be blocking the sparkimg.com domain?

Can you download the following file?

www.sparkimg.com/blog/pub/layout.swf

Cupie · Guru

dorian wrote:
Perhaps your browser can't render images in PNG format???

Can you see this image?

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Sparky_the_Fire_Dog.png ........... Yes I see the fire dog ..G

Alternatively, could something be blocking the sparkimg.com domain? ....... This is blank too ..... G

Can you download the following file?

www.sparkimg.com/blog/pub/layout.swf ..... No can't download this ... G

I am currently using Google Chrome Had trouble with what I assume to be the Flash Player with Mozilla a few months ago, so I changed to Chrome.

-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 12th of May 2014 08:14:37 PM

dorian · Guru

If you right-click the SWF file and choose "Save", then this should allow you to save the file to your hard drive, irrespective of whether your browser can play it. If you can't save the file, then this would suggest that something is blocking the sparkimg.com domain.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
rockylizard wrote:
Woolly wrote:
Click on the stars in the top right hand side below the 'Start a new topic' & 'Reply' buttons. If you want it to be 2 stars click on the 2nd star across & so on.
Gday...
There's nuffin under those buttons on my 'view'
Cheers - John
Gday...
I repeat as above .... anyone care to try and explain why ??
cheers - John

I'm sorry for your Nuffin RL. cry The stars are only visible after you open a thread,,, does that help? smile

Gerty Dancer · Guru

OK, next question. I tried clicking on stars for another thread, the machine said "Thanks for rating this topic" but the star rating doesn't show. ??

rockylizard · Guru

Gerty Dancer wrote:
OK, next question. I tried clicking on stars for another thread, the machine said "Thanks for rating this topic" but the star rating doesn't show. ??

Gday...

I have now noticed that the 'stars' appear sometimes ... on the thread before I open it .. and also sometimes after I open it.

Like you said - a couple of times when they have been there and I click on a 'star', it has said "Thanks for rating this topic" .. but other times nothing happens cry ... and the ratings don't seem to "update" either.

OH well, it will all work out in the end I guess .. I'll just sit and patiently watch with interest

cheers - John

dorian · Guru

Can you provide a link to the topic?

Edit: It appears that the problematic threads are random. Is it possible that the page is being rendered from the copy in cache? If so, does the page display correctly after it is refreshed? FWIW, my browser (Opera) uses the F5 key for refresh.

Edit #2: When I visit a new thread, all 5 stars are dim. If I rate the thread, then I get a "Thank you" message but no stars. I refresh the page and I can then see all 5 stars. In the present case 3 stars are lit while the 4th is partially lit. The rating is 3.53.

-- Edited by dorian on Monday 12th of May 2014 09:24:25 PM

Cupie · Guru

I give up.

No stars for me ... but I don't care. Of no particular interest to me.

I'll just sit on the sidelines until the program is fixed.

hako · Guru

I know I'm dumb, but why the need to rate a thread?.....I read those which have headings that sound interesting.
Good Luck.
Denis

Happywanderer · The Master

I'm sure those stars have been there for a long time. I always wondered what they were and what do you do with them.
I see no reason to rate a topic, like Denis.
Posting on a topic seems much more appropriate to me.

dorian · Guru

Cupie wrote:
I give up.
No stars for me ... but I don't care. Of no particular interest to me.

Can you see the emoticons, eg ...

http://www.sparkimg.com/emoticons/cry.gif

http://www.sparkimg.com/emoticons/smile.gif

Friar Park · Senior Member

I agree with Denis and HappyWanderer the number of replies for some is a good enough rating and others seeking help or advice wouldn't warrant rating.

Friar

Cupie · Guru

dorian wrote:
Cupie wrote:
I give up.
No stars for me ... but I don't care. Of no particular interest to me.
Can you see the emoticons, eg ...
http://www.sparkimg.com/emoticons/cry.gif
http://www.sparkimg.com/emoticons/smile.gif

No for both .... G

dorian · Guru

Well, then that confirms that there is some kind of content blocker in place. Sorry, but I don't know where to go from here other than to try searching the Internet.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=chrome+%22ad+blocker%22

FWIW, Adblock and Adblock Plus appear to be very popular Chrome extensions, so maybe one of these is interfering with your forum experience.