Can the "skip it" , "disruptive" and the "average" threads get marked too?

[Morning Dew]

It doesn't help that much if I still have to open those threads. I mean, as long as the must read and the rec. threads are marked, it can't be that much trouble to mark the others as well.

[Cleita]

1. What if trolls come along and mark really good threads as

"skip it", "disruptive" and "average"?

[Morning Dew]

3. I don't know.

What if they mark disruptive threads as must read.

I guess I don't hate the new system yet, but in some ways it's not that user friendly - for me, anyway.

[peace13]

4. It doesn't take a troll to do that.

The first folks to read a thread aren't always the brightest. Good posts will be missed with this system. In fact I regard it as an odd kind of way to measure the merit of an idea.

[tyedyeto]

6. Since the admins have access as to how individuals vote in polls

I would assume they could also spot trolls by how they vote on the recommends.

[BlooInBloo]

7. It's called "democracy". You rely on the good people to outnumber the bad....

Yes I realize that's a scary idea in America.

[DJ13]

8. Thats precisely why I dont like a ratings system

Yahoo Finance changed three years ago from a Recommend style like we had here up until yesterday to one that used a 5 star Ratings system.

Most every informative post on important news about the stock the board is supposed to discuss now gets 1 star from short sellers and/or a hedge fund shorting that stock, taking advantage of Yahoo's board default settings where "1 star or less" gets filtered out so you dont see it.

It wouldnt take much for a large group of Freepers to register here, not to post, but to just low rate important posts.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Then they get averaged out by DUers.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Other ideas I've had

Debunked/Bogus
Dupe
Old News

[Morning Dew]

5. those are good

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[DCKit]

9. You forgot "Worst Post Ever".

but your choices are excellent.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Skinner- if you read this, I concur with the OP.

If a large number of people are all saying "skip it" or "disruptive" and I don't know until I've already clicked on the thread to read it, what's the point?

I agree that I don't want to see a lot of orange, yellow, and red in the column, it's too distracting.

But how about you just have the tag but keep it grayed out?

Fair compromise, no?