Thread rating

[dinowoman]

I'm asking this purely out of curiosity, rather than because it's causing me a problem, but I'm wondering if it's a bug.

I've never used the thread rating feature, but I happened to glance at the "Rate Thread" box in the "Am I wanted here?" thread in the Lobby, because it struck me as an odd thread to have a 5 star rating and I wondered if it indicated who had voted for it. It told me "You have already rated this thread", which I definitely haven't. I then looked at several other threads that had been rated, and all of them told me the same thing (including one thread that I had never even read prior to that point). However, unrated threads give me the option of voting.

It made me wonder whether there's something odd about my situation, or whether there's a bug that only allows one person to rate a thread.

[strawberry_sparkles]

I was wondering the same thing, actually.

I've never rated a thread, but it tells me that I've already rated it and every other thread I checked as well. Kinda confusing. I've never really given it much thought before; I just assumed that whoever created the thread rated it 5 stars to get more views or something, didn't really give it much more thought than that.

So, nice to know it's not just me.

[KatieKat]

I just rated this thread, and it told me my vote had been added. I've never rated a thread before, and I had no problem, apparently.

[Panic!]

I tried to rate this thread and it says that I have already done so. This is definitely false because I've never been in this thread before.

[strawberry_sparkles]

Me too.

This is odd.

[Crystal Shards]

I'll see what I can find out.

[strawberry_sparkles]

Did you notice a lot of those rated 5 star threads are spam a lot of the time?

[Crystal Shards]

That's because the people who spam rate them as 5 stars. I mean I can't really do anything about that.

[strawberry_sparkles]

That's kinda what I thought. They think 5 rated stars = lots of views.

And I was just wondering.