PS: Maybe the top rated section also should be removed. It seems that it doesn’t work correctly anymore.

First of all, we know that we can’t satisfy all users. And the ones who are satisfied with the new method won’t tell us here. There where 3 main reasons why we changed the method to rate artworks.

1. The 5-star rating was easy to manipulate. The Applause system can still be abused, but it is less effective now. It was hard for an artwork to get away from 5 1-star ratings of one user with multiple accounts, and there are a lot of “one-star-raters” around toonpool.com.

2. Art might be rateable, but I don’t see a connection to olympic medals. Sometimes a beautiful artwork was downrated because of the message in it or the country the artist is coming from, and the artist didn’t know why it was downrated. No doubt, it is helpful for customers who look for 5-star vacuum cleaners, but there is no good or bad art. Mike Baird seems to have seen a helpful tool in the 5-star rating, helping him to determine good artworks among his collection, but hundreds of e-mail complaints of other artists within the last years prove otherwise.

3. As derzeichner explains, the rating of most of the artworks on toonpool.com used to level at the average between 2.50 and 3.50. It was interesting for the first 7 days of an uploaded artwork to see the movement of rating, but afterwards it reached the mediocre. With the Applause method, artworks can still raise when uploaded 2 years ago.

I don’t think the Applause method is perfect, but it should help out the next time. There were a lot of good ideas for a new rating method in the forum, and they mostly asked for transparency; that all raters should be “visible” to the community. That there should be some way to express the opinion, not reduced to five simple stars.

Well, that’s always been possible. By writing comments.

All the best to you,
~Max

Getting A STAR is like winning a race at the Olympics it shows after all the years of studying and trial and era you have reached a higher performance.

Its a shame that those people who never get a STAR want to spoil it for the rest.

Just imagine winning a race at the OLYMPICS and not getting a medal – there would be no point for the winners to try.

I liked the Stars – If I didn’t get any stars I knew my work wasn’t very good so I took those cartoons off and put better ones on until people like them.

Auf den Straßen geht es immer mehr aggro zu, das Bildungssystem wird vom Kindergarten bis zur Promotion auf Druck, Auslese, Stress umgebaut, aber mancherorts siegt die Kuschelpädagogik der siebziger Jahre. Oder genauer: eine Karikatur ihrer.

Wozu da noch Differenzierungsmöglichkeiten bei der Bewertung, wenn man etwa zum Ausdruck bringen möchte, dass einem zwar Stil, Aufbau, Ausführung eines Cartoons gefallen, einem aber dessen Aussage als fragwürdig erscheint? Grautöne sind was für böse Menschen, gute sehen die Welt aufgeteilt in Schwarz und Weiß.

Und sicher werden jene Zeitgenossen, die bislang eine halbe Stunde nach der Veröffentlichung eines ihrer Cartoons schon herumgejammert haben, wenn ihnen jemand einen einzigen Stern verpasst hatte, nicht ab sofort in einem neuerlichen Posting mit anspruchsvollem Screenshot “So unfair…” heulen, wenn sie nach zwei Stunden immer noch kein Herzchen haben sollten.

To me,it is no problem, different people different meanings and views.

Only no rassism, crime and nazis.