Instructions for the profile
http://profiles.tiki.org/Consensus_Seeking_Forums_Instructions
Users created
This demo profile
creates two users (user1 and user2) for you in your site to help you test the feature from the point of view of different users:
- One single user can not rate his/her own posts (not even the admin), and that's why you need a second user, at least, to rate the thread or posts of another user.
- If you try this profile in a production system, remember to remove these 2 users if you don't want to keep them in your site.
1.2. Forum details
Details of the forum created by this profile (named "
Discussion forum")
- It allows rating forum threads
- The current rating that a user (let's say, user2) maintains on the initial forum thread (made by another user, let's say user1) will be displayed in all the header of the replies by that user2.
- This way, you can provide more attention and further details or clarifications to those users which agree less with the contents of the initial discussion thread (idea, proposal, action, ...).
- When the user (user2) changes the rating on the starting message of the thread made by user1, the user2 choice shown in his/her reply headers will be updated to reflect the user2 last rating on that starting message of the thread made by user1.
1.3. Example
Example of the thread list in a forum, showing results for the first message of every thread (thread topic), with detailed results and rating smileys both enabled.
If we visit one of those threads of that forum, we can see that the rating shown in the threads list corresponds to the rating of the thread topic (first message of the thread). Replies to that topic can also be rated by users.
Since
Tiki12.2, there is a new forum setting to allow the optional display of the Rating by each user to that forum thread topic in each reply.
As stated earlier, this is useful to ease the task to reach consensus on deliberations (in forum threads) by identifying in a more clear way the position (topic rating) of each person on that topic at each moment on the discussion.
For more information, see:
http://doc.tiki.org/Rating#Users_ratings_in_Forums