I’m noticing that comment voting is important to people, so I have changed the system to make it more sophisticated. Now, instead of just upvoting or downvoting a comment, you can rate it on a scale from 1 to 5. Do check it out and tell me how you feel about the new system. I made the stars green but I can also make them red, yellow, blue, or grey.
New Comment Rating System
Clarissa's Blog 
No ma’am. I don’t like it.
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For posts that have a lot of comments, all those green/red/yellow stars are going to clutter the screen quite a bit. And those posts need to be less distracting so that multiple people can engage with each other in real time.
For posts that have a couple of comments, it doesn’t really matter what you do.
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\\ For posts that have a lot of comments, all those green/red/yellow stars are going to clutter the screen quite a bit.
Haven’t thought about that before, but it’s right.
The stars jump to eyes painfully because of the ‘screaming’ color.
Btw, never look at the voting.
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Grey stars might be less distracting.
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I changed it to gray but it got kind of depressing.
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I like it so much I gave it a whooole big bunch of gray!
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What rating controls?
I haven’t seen them at all after installing some rather basic filtering software — I think it’s something called “Disconnect Me” …
[ahem] 🙂
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I prefer the binary “thumbs up/down” option. Evaluating comments feels weird, but I’ve found it’s fun being able to signal “nicely said!” or “I concur” or “that was dumb.” The more fine-grained system elicits more judge-y labor than I really want to put in.
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I can always change it back if people don’t like it.
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Five gray stars to that idea!
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I suppose you have changed it back? I liked the idea, but have been unable to read here for a couple of days.
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Yes, I changed it back since it didn’t seem to make anybody happy.
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