Thread rating dropdown needs to be more prominant

[dethtron5000]

The dropdown is kind of getting lost down at the bottom there. If the quality threads are going to be posted on the front page, we need to be able to see where the dropdown to rate them is.

 

[mullaney]

Perhaps only the IRC savvy veterans should know where they are.

 

[dethtron5000]

That's bad information design. If you want to make it visible to a certain user group, then only make it visible to that group based on the number of posts they have or something. I'm IRC savvy and I had to hunt for it...it should be prominantly placed or not.

 

[mullaney]

The design is primarily dictated by the default vbulletin design which is not final. When vbulletin finalizes the style for the vbulletin 3, then I can make large changes to the templates with confidence.

 

[Choo Choo Andee]

I just rated this thread 5 stars.

 

[mullaney]

You are not alone. At least 7 people have rated this thread, maybe they do know where the thread rate menu is.

 

[dethtron5000]

I'm just saying it's buried, that's all. Of course some people are going to know how to do it, and people will find it on their own, but putting it below the 'reply' and 'similar threads' areas puts it out of sight at the moment you want to react to the thread (when you finish reading it). A better place would be in the dark blue row that has the 'return to top' link. That way the user's eye will finish the last post and then naturally fall upon the dropdown. Move it there and I would bet dollars to donuts that the number of ratings/post would increase.

You know, just sayin'.

How many ratings does it take before a thread has those little stars visible?

 

[VarietyUndrgrnd]

Obviously people can find the rating thing if they want to and/or look hard enough and/or feel like scrolling. Doesn't mean Dethtron isn't right: it's bad design, plain and simple. Don't take it personally, Mullaney, because, as you said, you have no control over the design of the IRC. (Which is a topic for another time.)

 

[mullaney]

How many ratings does it take before a thread has those little stars visible?

2

I may increase that in the future, if and when there are more threads that get rated.

 

[DougMoe]

Any plans to make Journals rateable? Hee hee hee...actually, I'm serious.