Topics ,star ratings, a good idea ?

Only by a few?

Just to clarify :the lighthearted suggestion was more of a warning system , some of us are very intellectual, some are more knowledgeable about certain topics than others but all who have joined GN have and are entitled to voice & share our opinions & perhaps even learn something new, SO to avoid being shot down in flames for not being knowledgeable enough about a topic I suggested a warning system to indicate that a topic was being based on either a highly intellectual level or just a joe blogs point of view level,thinking ,perhaps & I say perhaps ‘carefully ‘ it would stop some posters being so critical & dare I say snobbish almost deliberately ignoring the meaning-of a comment & just resorting to insulting put downs .There are a couple of threads where joe blogs’s opinions are not welcome or will be heavily criticised. We don’t know how mentally,emotionally robust we all are,Hence my suggestion for a kind of an enter at your peril warning. Was that so bad !.? Apparently the answers is YES.

PS I never mind being told I'm wrong as long as I learn something in the process.

Oh dear ... I thought this was a thread about the validity of star ratings on the likes of Amazon! Now I find it's a thread about ... well, what exactly? Star ratings on GN, maybe, to start with. Now it seems to be an argument about arguing!!
To return to what I think the OP meant (tongue in cheek as she said), star ratings are a terrible idea - even tongue in cheek. Shouldn't our conversations reflect those we have in real life - sometimes we know a little, sometimes we think we know a little; sometimes we know a lot and sometimes we think we know a lot and find out, or are told, that the opposite is true. Just sometimes the 'telling' needs to be restrained a little more when it's actually written. Maybe when we are 'told' it should be in the spirit of education, rather than admonishment.

I should never have confessed

Jalima I thought the half stars ( slowly vanishing) was deliberate and funny!

Gill....which playground bullies, and why would you think this thread is ‘nasty and irresponsible’ because I can’t see it, and neither can some others.
The OP was a tongue in cheek meant to be light thread.
All I can see is that some posters see things differently and although I can’t see ( nor can some others) any harm at all, it seems some others can do.All about what mindset you have I guess.

Haha,! I thought the half stars were a clever, humorous comment! I obviously need to go to bed
No, they were a complete and utter failure on my part to cut and paste

What a nasty and irresponsible thread. If I don't like a subject, I keep away, simple, and for the record,everyone's opinion is as valid as any other. We are all different, with varying opinions, life experience, politics, and that is what this forum is about, not personal insults. Please stop this thread. This is my last comment on this, have got better things to do than witness playground bullies at play. I realise the OP (may) not have started with this intent, but it has now become nasty.

It seems very easy to fall out on GN. I'm quite glad I'm mainly ignored.
Anyway, for what it's worth, I don't fancy any sort of star ratings thank you. I'd feel even more inferior!

No thanks at best patronising at worst would stop people wanting to post anything . Why grade people on what they post if you don't like it don't read it

Oh dear. I often think Jalimas comments are very funny.

Sorry if I got that wrong.

Isn't it just!

It's strange what makes some people laugh isn't it.

Haha,! I thought the half stars were a clever, humorous comment! I obviously need to go to bed.......

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Not my words Chewbacca, it was Elegran's post but I agree with them and tried to give them 3 stars.

Failed again, although I suppose you could say I nearly gave them four!

This is true Jalima. The gloom, anger and misery seems to pervade many threads these days, not just the news and politics forums.

Popped in and straight back again. I too thought it was a bit of fun.?

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Gransnet used to be a place for laughter and warmth, but they are being gradually squeezed out by humourless gloom.

Meet me in The Argy Chewy ????
Plenty of fun there.

pokes head round door I opened this because I thought it was going to be a light hearted, fun thread. Nope! Not now it isn't. tiptoes back out

But the question is ‘why?’ Why should anyone take against a perfectly harmless OP......utterly baffling.

The reason I posted "please stop" was because the thread seemed to be turning into personal insults, rather than a debate/discussion.

MaryEliza it seems that you and GG are determined to give the kiss of death to any thread that is merely trying to be amusing.I ask myself why.?

There are plenty of light hearted threads on GN - there’s one known as troll hunting when someone posts a serious problem - laugh? I nearly died.