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hankydanky2k
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To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms?
#3418935 - 11/28/04 09:42 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Who ever thought to put up the 5 shroom system? How many times have you gotten anything other than 1 or 5? I have nothing other than 5 or 1 shroom ratings. Would anybody care to take the time to decide between 3 or 4 shrooms? Hell no! You either like something somebody said or didn't. Nobody wastes their time using this system. I am we would all appreciate a 2 shroom system. Then you could just give a % next to the persons name. It could be a rotten shroom or a fresh shroom. Does anybody see where I am coming from? Anything more than two is pointless. And what is 3 shrooms for? You might as well not even rate them if you are just going to be nuetral. Unrated posts are automatically nuetral, right? Please, somebody explain their opinion.
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abhi
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: hankydanky2k]
#3419094 - 11/28/04 11:27 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thread ratings do not count towards user ratings.
And 5 shrooms is just a nice number, and it looks cool
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: abhi]
#3419127 - 11/28/04 11:43 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I recently was considering giving someone 3 shrooms, as i like em but I think they're unnescesarily mean to some members
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: hankydanky2k]
#3419343 - 11/28/04 01:22 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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i like the idea of a %rate, but rates are pretty meaningless and just a popularity contest really, even if presented with summary stats like n, SD, rate/post etc. they'd not represent much. now the green trade shrooms, those are worthwhile if you like to spread the good news.
i dunno where the 5 came from, it's true that 2/3/4 votes are pretty thin on the ground. it sure does look cool have five though
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: shirley knott]
#3419347 - 11/28/04 01:24 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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LOL
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: MovingTarget]
#3419361 - 11/28/04 01:30 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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he prob just jealous that he doesn't have 5 shrooms....jk jk jk
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: hankydanky2k]
#3419948 - 11/28/04 05:24 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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well the 5 shrooms would allow someone that % you are talking about.
If you have 20 5 shroom rates and 10 1 shroom rates, you arent going to have 5 full shrooms sitting there...it will show an according percentage...
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shirley knott
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Kremlin]
#3423665 - 11/29/04 03:34 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Kremlin said:If you have 20 5 shroom rates and 10 1 shroom rates, you arent going to have 5 full shrooms sitting there...it will show an according percentage...
i have 4.81% and i have 4 and a half shrooms. in the ratings forum i have five, however
i'd be happy with one shrooms ROCK
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: shirley knott]
#3426761 - 11/30/04 04:46 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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> i have 4.81% and i have 4 and a half shrooms. in the ratings forum i have five, however The code that displays a rating on the ratings page is different than the code that displays ratings on the rest of the site. I just updated the code that displays ratings on the rest of the site to more accurately display a reflection of your rating. As you noticed, if you add up and divide to calculate your rating, the number you calculate can be different than what is displayed. This is because a rating can only go from 1 to 5, but we display ratings from 0 to 5 in 1/2 increaments. The range of 1 to 5 is scaled onto the range of 0 to 5 for display purposes. Any rating that averages to 4.8 or larger should display as five shrooms, not 4.5. Shirley Knott, as of this post, you have 123 rates for a total value of 584. This averages out to 4.75, which is below the 4.8 cutoff requied for a 5. (Remember, with the scale going from 0 to 5 rather than 1 to 5, it is harder to get a 5 than it used to be!)
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Seuss]
#3431780 - 12/01/04 07:50 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seuss said: Shirley Knott, as of this post, you have 123 rates for a total value of 584. This averages out to 4.75, which is below the 4.8 cutoff requied for a 5. (Remember, with the scale going from 0 to 5 rather than 1 to 5, it is harder to get a 5 than it used to be!)
how did you get "584"?
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: 40oz]
#3440375 - 12/02/04 10:54 PM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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fortyounces2freedom said:
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Seuss said: Shirley Knott, as of this post, you have 123 rates for a total value of 584. This averages out to 4.75, which is below the 4.8 cutoff requied for a 5. (Remember, with the scale going from 0 to 5 rather than 1 to 5, it is harder to get a 5 than it used to be!)
how did you get "584"?
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: 40oz]
#3441154 - 12/03/04 07:16 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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> how did you get "584"?
By typing "select sum(rating) as sumofrates, count(rating) as countofrates from generalrates where username='Shirley Knott'" into the database by hand and looking at the result. (more or less)
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40oz
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Seuss]
#3442971 - 12/03/04 04:14 PM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, mk, can you make a user function so we can check that ourselves?
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: 40oz]
#3464301 - 12/08/04 11:46 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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fortyounces2freedom said: yeah, mk, can you make a user function so we can check that ourselves?
I second this motion
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Anno
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: 40oz]
#3464633 - 12/08/04 12:49 PM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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>so we can check that ourselves?
You can check it yourselves. Just count all the shrooms together.
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40oz
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Anno]
#3469007 - 12/09/04 04:36 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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individually?
like total amount of blue 'individual' mushrooms, and then devide by what?
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Anno
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: 40oz]
#3469089 - 12/09/04 05:33 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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by the number of rates.
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40oz
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Anno]
#3469292 - 12/09/04 07:30 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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dude..thats alot of counting... i dont know about all that
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Seuss]
#3469320 - 12/09/04 07:38 AM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seuss said: > how did you get "584"?
By typing "select sum(rating) as sumofrates, count(rating) as countofrates from generalrates where username='Shirley Knott'"
Ok, now I know I am a geek! The above makes complete sense, in an SQL kinda way.
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40oz
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Re: To all the mods: Why 5 shrooms? [Re: Cyber]
#3473620 - 12/09/04 10:23 PM (19 years, 3 months ago) |
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im sure we could all understand if he used the space bar approprietly
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