Rating posts broken?Follow

Over the last couple of days, whenever i've tried to rate a post it doesn't work. I'd set the rating, and click "Rate Posts" as usual, but when the page loads again the post rating is the same, and the option box for setting a rating is still there. Is this just a problem with me, or have others noticed this?

Nothing

It is broken

Admin feedback please

I changed how the rating box is displayed.

I used to go through every time a post was displayed to you, and see if you'd rated it - then decide to show you to the box or not.

now, I dropped the check, if you're likely to be able to rate a thread, then it shows it to you. (though I should probably stop it from showing on your own threads).

the only time the check is done is when you actually rate posts. This removes well, 1,000's of queries from needing to run, and should result in higher performance. at the cost that you see a dropdown regardless of rating.

Try to rate all the posts in this thread (the buton's down at the bottom)

Well, will ya look at that... you're right . In my random changes over the weekend, I broke it..

Should be fixed now, please let me know if it's not.

Edited, Mon Feb 2 21:46:14 2004 by Illia

I get a wierd apache server error when trying to enter a rateing with the firewall up.

All the time. error message as follows:

Your ratings have been entered, thanksHTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:51:28 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked, chunked Content-Type: text/html Location: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:51:28 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
OK
The document has moved here.


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Apache/1.3.27 Server at eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com Port 80

works fine if I take down the shields, and the rating does appear to stick either way. Using Norton Internet Security 2004 with a router

Erm, I kinda found a loophole in the thread locking code too. Will e-mail you details if you like.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=4&mid=106818253662067&page=95

ya ya so I didn't actually add the check to the reply function.. was waiting to see how long it took you :)

it should bail rather uncerimoniously now.

oh try the rating thing now.

Edited, Tue Feb 3 21:24:45 2004 by Illia

oh, you get the box regardless now...

the message ratings table is 1.77 Million records at the moment. every time any non-anon user viewed a post (on say a page with 4,700 posts), that represented a pretty significant overhead.

so the select a rating box is normal for all posts.

One of the things I love about the board rating system is that you can rate each post as you read, then click "Submit" at the end of the page and rate all the posts in one shot. Would it be possible to implement this system on the main Alla's pages? (e.g., Items, spells, etc.) It's pretty irritating to have to rate each post individually then submit that one rating, especially now that you can't tell just by looking whether you've already rated a post or not.