[Lodur]

Originally Posted by Vuelhering 1-5 stars is one of the worst voting methods in existence. It does not help the consumer, pretty much ever. What the star system does is the following: 1 star - "This actually doesn't do almost anything it claims, and is buggy" 1 star - "The dev didn't answer a question I had within 4 hours" 1 star - "I installed it incorrectly" 1 star - "This competes with the addon I wrote" 1 star - "After installing it, my 73 other addons stopped working" 1 star - "The dev called me a bitch" 2 stars - "2 stars means nothing except that I'm an idiot." 2 stars - "I mis-clicked, tried to click 1 star" 3 stars - "I installed it and didn't test it" 3 stars - "I installed it but don't want the advertised functionality" 3 stars - "3 stars is average, and this is only an average ANOVA stat package with graphing, with automatic error bars and arbitrary-precision math library. I've seen better running on a 50 TFLOPS machine coded by MIT grads." 4 stars - "Does what it says, some minor issues" 4 stars - "I disagree with how a verb was conjugated, therefore it's not perfect. Otherwise, perfect addon" 4 stars - "I love this addon, but I'm a jackass and never give anyone praise or people will think I'm weak" 5 stars - "I love this addon" 5 stars - "The dev is in my guild" 5 stars - "I think the dev is cool because he answered someone's stupidass question with 'stfu bitch'"

Amazing post.