This isn't a suggestion to bring it back.

But the 'dumb' rating was around in 2014 I believe (that's when I see it used on other threads the most.)
Why was it removed?

 

Maybe because some people found that calling them 'dumb' is rude? Idk, I've never seen this rating

 

If you look at the second mod application it's used on something someone said.

It could be 'rude' but so are a lot of other things that are still able to be on here lmao

 

It was removed in 2015 thank you very much

 

I loved that rating. It relates to (6% of what @UncleUrnesto posts.

 

6% isn't that bad :p

 

I was saying I saw it on 2014 posts

 

You can tell if someone has had one or more of their posts rated dumb if they have received more negative ratings then dislike ratings.

It was probably removed because the rating was thought as demeaning, and people may have taken offense to it.

 

I would rate all your posts dumb if the rating came back

 

That's why it shouldn't come back; it would be abused.

 

rate abuse is against the forum rules

 

People take the dislike rating as demeaning too, but if that was removed then we'd be closer to FB

The like button is so much more abused than the dumb rating, often because people complain so much less about good ratings being abused than bad ones.

 

From my point of view the rating might have been removed as it was being used unnecessarily.

I believe people used to spam this rating on others they disliked. It's quite easy for one to say that they think a person's post is 'dumb' and give the rating.

 

Oh god not the this again. Anything can be abused.

I don't really view the rating as demeaning, because when it comes to this community, it would be more useful than the dislike button.

 

Agreed.

 

If it was removed because people abused it, why weren't all the negative ratings removed as well?

It wasn't removed because people abused it. I feel it was removed because some people got offended by receiving this rating.

 

Lol it was used on my first ever application. But yea once I took a break from this server a while ago I came back and it was never there so I am not sure :/

 

Can we have it back

 

I honestly think it should come back from my point of view.

For people who commented "This could be abused" Anything could be abused, easily.

Why did they remove it anyway? I mean, c'mon if they're gonna have any negative ratings, then why not have this one?

Some may take this rating as "Demeaning". seriously, anything could come across as "demeaning", from somebody agreeing (rating it that aswell) with anothers post about something bad about you to many other things.

This was honestly a big rating.

 

ikr might as well remove ratings in general