Many of you have noticed a strange interloper polldaddy link attached to WordPressers who leave comments on your posts.
This is a new Ratings Widget thingy from WordPress.
I do NOT understand a word they’ve written about it, but you can read about it at:
http://support.polldaddy.com/rating-widget/
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I noticed that weird link. I clicked on one by accident and thought it was a virus, arg! Thanks! 🙂
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Welcome Deborah 😀
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It’s an addition to the thumbs up/down rating you’ve already got enabled.
Most of the article describes how to make your own icons for the rating system. The rest tells you how to install it.
Don’t know how much use it would be on a blog, but for a store or other mercantile site, it could be important, since it would generate that nice little graph you see on Amazon that shows how many of each rating your “product” has received (especially if you use the java script code).
At least, that’s what I’m getting out of that mess. Still looks like too much headache to use – any time you have to get into the code, and it’s not for something simple, it’s probably too much work for most non-programmers to use on a regular basis. I have enough trouble with tables, so I know it’s not something I’d use. I go cross-eyed trying to sort through the easy stuff when I have to set up a new table-organized page!
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I agree Kat – not something a non-commercial blogger wants to mess around with…
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Especially when you start getting into scripts. I may know the basic coding, but as soon as you add that tag, I’m way out of my depth.
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Indeed – I can do a little Basic & Java coding, but not enough to have the desire to follow this widget up…
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Thanks for the explanation. I’ve been ignoring them and wondering why everyone was sending me another link to click on! I’ll happily continue to ignore them 🙂
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Glad to have cleared up that mystery Diana 😃
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Thank you. I still don’t understand it and don’t have the time to put any more thought into their new rating system. Would rather they leave this polldaddy thing off my blog – it’s confusing as all heck.
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I KNEW they’d been playing again 🙂 I don’t think I’ll bother with this one though…
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I’m not intending to use it Sue – If I can’t understand it, I’m not playing it 😄😄😄
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I’m assuming that’s why I keep getting these blue link things in the comments… And I make no comment on that … not on a family friendly site… 😉
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Ok, I got so far as they want you to either implement a star rating (known from the evil online shop empire) or a facebook + rating (as you can have thumbs down also – like the emperor in the circus, hence Nero-rating).
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Thing is Fran – Historically speaking, the thumbs up meant death and thumbs down meant life for gladiators…
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Must take your word for it, I am not that old to have been around then …
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I still do not understand a word that they said!! But why is it called a Nero rating.. does that mean it is for those of us who have Imperial complexes.. at first I thought it was a typo and was meant to be a zero.. I am now off for some dark chocolate and a lie down in a darkened room..
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That is always a good answer to everything!
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Agreed Fran 😄😄😄
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I’m hoping someone will explain it in easy to understand terms Sally – meanwhile, enjoy the chocolate and darkened room 👍😄😄😄
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Not gonna use that
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It appears to already be attached to everyone’s comments Alice 😱😃
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Woops, did not notice that. Am in dashboard so have not seen the blog yet #sigh
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😱🙀😄😄😄
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I wondered what that was! Thanks for explaining it Chris 🙂
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Welcome Edwina 😃
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Thanks… ohhh my scatterbrain… since a couple of days I try to understand what it was… :-)c
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Same here Claudine – At first I thought it was some kind of virus link…
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