The ratings experiment is over

That takes a lot of pressure off.  I'm not real big on popularity contests, they make my palms sweaty, even online.

I second what wildgoose said.

thirded

fourthed.

Yeah, but I much preferred the stars to the thumbs.

I do kind of like the idea of a Facebook-style "like" positive-only rating option.  That way you don't have the drive-by "this sucks" that just spreads negativity, but it offers the potential for some feedback on offbeat posts that might not invite much in the way of commentary.

I plead the fifth.

I read PDD almost exclusively via my blog reader so any functionality outside of the the user's post would have to be included with the feed for me to use it.  $0.02

I liked to be able to say "this sucks" when I thought it sucked (yeah, I know that's not PC or community), but that was a very rare occurrence. It may be more popular if you can work it into the RSS feed, though, as it may be more trouble than it's worth to those of us not coming directly to the site.

i rate this 5-star message thumbs up

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yay!--rest in piece specious, unneeded manifestations of meritocratic nonsense!

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