I see some more ratings options are now available...... roll of paper ( helpful) and poo (not helpful)... funny and fitting
It's harder than you'd think to create or find icons that visibly and immediately represent "Helpful" and "Not Helpful," and be 16x16 pixels (or 20x20 at most). The default icon for "Helpful" was that wrench. OK, I suppose.
Instead of the Nuke icon for off-topic I was gonna use the poop icon, as that one seems to fit there, as well. But poop makes a better counterpart to the helpful TP icon, I think. I may end up using different icons for both, I dunno.
I still need to change the thumbs up and down icons to be more like the standard Facebook like icon that we had before, instead of the "realistic" hands (which I don't like at all - so everyone who really likes them needs to weigh in here or in a PC). I also need to find a better icon for "Bummer," as well as icons for "Happy" and "Sad" and "Zing!" I've gone ahead and made the latter three visible and available, even though I don't have icons for them.
Dislike, Disagree and Not Helpful count as a Neutral Rating. The Off Topic is a Negative Rating. All others are Positive. If people think "Dislike" should be a Positive Rating instead (because it gets used mainly for things like dislike a post about someone blowing a transmission or getting caught in the snow), let me know.
If someone posts something that's clearly off-topic and intended to derail a thread (and it's not near the end of a thread that's already run its course), don't be afraid to let 'em know with an Off Topic rating. By the same token, it
really needs to be off topic and not something that's a result of the normal flow of the conversation. Anyone abusing the Off Topic rating, just like anything else, will lose the privilege to rate posts.
(or does everyone like the current "medal" 
for that one?
