FAQ Rating Abuse - Overclock.net

**admin** · 08-23-05

It appears that some members have been beatifically attempting to lower the scores of other FAQs by purposely giving them a low rating when they actually deserve a high rating (i.e. 40 people vote 4 and one person votes 1). This is not a positive contribution to the forum and costs us great time and energy to clean up the mess.

We will be going through the ratings over the next little while, to see who the culprits are. All of which will be banned for these actions... unless they come forward now. Simply send me a PM explaining what you did and to which FAQs you did it to. You will not be banned for proactively coming forward.

Thanks,
admin

**Krunk_Kracker** · 08-23-05

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Originally Posted by admin

It appears that some members have been beatifically attempting to lower the scores of other FAQs by purposely giving them a low rating when they actually deserve a high rating (i.e. 40 people vote 4 and one person votes 1). This is not a positive contribution to the forum and costs us great time and energy to clean up the mess.

We will be going through the ratings over the next little while, to see who the culprits are. All of which will be banned for these actions... unless they come forward now. Simply send me a PM explaining what you did and to which FAQs you did it to. You will not be banned for proactively coming forward.

Thanks,
admin

It's always something isn't it? A good thing always take's a large amount of work because people want to bring it down. I'm speaking of the forum in general.

MrSmiley · 08-23-05

Hahahahaha, that is sad. I have a question for you though, what if someone doesn't agree with it, do they not deserve the right to give a 1? Why even have the one option if the general policy states that you will get banned for giving a 1? While not trying to sound like a caniving prick but don't you think that is somewhat... contradictory? But if one person is doing this is a large amount there should be somewhere in your tables on the SQL server you have that'll state it right there. If you cannot find it there, you could always look at the cache.

**Krunk_Kracker** · 08-23-05

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Originally Posted by MrSmiley

Hahahahaha, that is sad. I have a question for you though, what if someone doesn't agree with it, do they not deserve the right to give a 1? Why even have the one option if the general policy states that you will get banned for giving a 1? While not trying to sound like a caniving prick but don't you think that is somewhat... contradictory? But if one person is doing this is a large amount there should be somewhere in your tables on the SQL server you have that'll state it right there. If you cannot find it there, you could always look at the cache.

Honestly, if you totally disagree with a FAQ, you still don't have to give it a 1, lol. I mean, you can reply, stating your opinion and grade it accordingly. If you think t does deserve a 1, give it a one, but I can't think of any FAQ that the mods would let through that would deserve a 1.

I think he's speaking of a user that continually gives out ratings of 1.

clueless-oc · 08-23-05

there is a difference between disagreeing with a faq and degrading them all

*SpookedJunglist* · 08-23-05

Some of the FAQs you can't really disagree with. How do you disagree with the multiple power supply FAQ? It was well written and accurate, thats what you should be rating it on. If you don't have a Intel PC don't rate a Intel FAQ poorly because you dont like Intel. I think that could be one of the problems.

game · 08-23-05

I say have them give a reason if they give a low score..With my 3 TI Overclock FAQs I somehow have a rating of 1.5??

**admin** · 08-23-05

We are only interested in following up with people who have been using the rating system in malicious ways.

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Some of the FAQs you can't really disagree with. How do you disagree with the multiple power supply FAQ? It was well written and accurate, thats what you should be rating it on. If you don't have a Intel PC don't rate a Intel FAQ poorly because you dont like Intel. I think that could be one of the problems.

Agreed. We may have to restrict who can rate FAQs because of this :/

**UberN00B** · 08-23-05

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Originally Posted by admin

We are only interested in following up with people who have been using the rating system in malicious ways.

Agreed. We may have to restrict who can rate FAQs because of this :/

how do we know which FAQ's we posted in?

game · 08-23-05

Oh, its not my TI OC FAQs, somebody hates my PSP Overclocking FAQ.

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admin Overclocked Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 8,509 FAQs Submitted: 4 Trader Rating: 1	FAQ Rating Abuse It appears that some members have been beatifically attempting to lower the scores of other FAQs by purposely giving them a low rating when they actually deserve a high rating (i.e. 40 people vote 4 and one person votes 1). This is not a positive contribution to the forum and costs us great time and energy to clean up the mess. We will be going through the ratings over the next little while, to see who the culprits are. All of which will be banned for these actions... unless they come forward now. Simply send me a PM explaining what you did and to which FAQs you did it to. You will not be banned for proactively coming forward. Thanks, admin __________________ Fold for the cure and TeamOverclock.net #37726

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