[quote=@Mahz]
Last night I created a post-rating system that's inspired by a popular Xenforo plug-in called [url=https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-ratings-taking-likes-to-the-next-level.410/]Post Ratings[/url].

Some first-effort screenshots:

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/ylca5een.png[/img]

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/stzv2sf6.png[/img]

- You can only rate a post every 30 seconds
- Once you rate a post, you have 30 seconds to undo it

Some things that might not make it into the first release:

- Receive notification when someone rates your post
- A button that displays who rated the post
- Profile tab that paginates through your ratings
- On desktop, the rating buttons only appear when you hover a post (Keeps them out of the way)
- On mobile, clicking a "Rate Post" button pops up your three options (Prevents sausage-fingering ratings while scrolling)
- Reduce the visual footprint of a post's ratings so it's not so in your face

Thoughts?
[/quote]

I guess I'm confused at why we need three different pieces of karma. Shouldn't a simple "Like" or "Thumbs Up" do the trick? It can mean different things based on the context of the post and the rater, but at its baseline the result is a metric for good posts. I would think that a post you like, a post that has good information and a post that makes you laugh would all qualify as 'good', making three different ratings redundant. 

If you're going to have specific ratings, it seems a bit useless unless there's a description as to why you 'liked' something as opposed to 'thanking' it or 'laughing' at it. And then we get into feature bloat, when all of it could be simply described by a single rating system. 

My $0.02. 

As a side note, I do have a suggestion. If someone edits their post after receiving a rating, should the rater be allowed to (without a time limit, unless the time limit is related to viewing the edited post somehow) remove their rating? It's probably a niche scenario, but some people may decide to craft a post to get a rating, and then edit it so that the raters look foolish. That's definitely not Fonz Cool, but it's hard to detect this kind of thing unless people notice the edit and take action. Removing ratings after an edit could be that action, but I suppose a simple post reporting could also do the trick (but people seem more loathe to get someone in trouble, aka snitch, than they are to simply and passively remove their involvement in someone's trickery).