Sorry for the abrupt exit, but you may have noticed CHS lost its stars today.
The idea behind the star ratings was to give users an easy way to leave feedback and I still believe that is important. It was also potentially a way to find great content — here, for example, are the top-rate posts from the last three months:
Top Rated Stories
- CHS Giving Snowball 2008
- The Great Divide
- CHS-V Ep.1 – The Blog
- Bus Service on Cancelled Hill
- Everything you need to know about snow on the Hill
They’re all good stories. Top-rated stories weren’t the problem. The anonymous and ambiguous nature of the one and two-star ratings is what troubled me. What did that 1-star rating really represent? Was it because of the tone of the post or an error? Was it because of the content or because of the creator? Too many questions. So, for now, the stars are gone. When they come back, it will probably be a simpler system — I’m hoping for something like “Suggest This.” If you like something, you can say so. If you hate it — well, then you’ll need to leave a comment and explain yourself.
what’s with the new placement of the horizontal line below the post’s title instead of above it? I think it made more sense before, now all the posts kind of blend together.
Fixed. And stars are gone from comments too.