Good evening, or morning to you all depending on your time zone. I know Paul is going to conduct a personal demo with a couple of you tomorrow but I wanted to re-post a message sent to Red earlier this evening.

Before doing so, I first wanted to point out that a couple of you referred to using the 5-star system to rate a post. To be clear, the 5-star system is a vote for the member who made the post, not the actual post itself. As such, though you can change your vote on a member at anytime (higher because you think they are more valuable, or lower because you think they are becoming less valuable) only your last vote counts. This may explain why some of you think you are not seeing much of a change.

With this is mind, please read the following:

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Using the 5 stars system, we are not experiencing any problem with voting for members at this time. We just cast votes for more than 20 members and the system is working perfectly.

There are, however, two scenarios where you legitimately would not see any changes after casting a vote:

1] You have already voted for somebody . Assume you had already cast a vote for a member by the name of John123 and you were now changing your vote. In this instance, the number of votes for John123 would not change b/c each member can only vote for another member 1 time. If you vote more than once, only your last vote counts. Otherwise, a single member could vote 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, for a friend and artificially earn them several 5-star votes. Likewise, a member who doesn't like you could vote 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 for you and significantly knock down your average rating.

As such, if John123 had 10 votes prior to your change, he would still only have 10 votes after your change.

2] Your vote does not change the average score of the member. For example, if Bob456 has an average rating of 3.1 on 10 votes and you decide to cast an 11th vote for 3 stars, he will now have an average score of 3.09. Our system would round this up to 3.1 = no change.

Hopefully, this helps clarify this specific issue.

Regards,
George