Gallery Rating

Gallery ratings are a scoring system, based on user input, that values a gallery's worth on a scale from 1 to 5 stars.

How To

Rating a gallery is done by opening a gallery and using the five stars on the left side below its data and above the Favorites link. Simply click on the desired rating of 1 through 5 (from left to right). The number next to the rating indicates the number of users who have voted on that gallery. Users may not rate their own galleries.

A gallery's rating is displayed both on the gallery's page and on the galleries front page. The rating shown is based on the total number of votes it has received, weighed by each user's mod power at the time they voted. Users may change their vote at any time (this will require refreshing the gallery page if they have just voted for it), but they may not remove it.

Effects

A gallery's rating does not directly affect it in any way. Users may choose to avoid galleries with low ratings, but that is entirely at their discretion. Gallery searches may be performed using a minimum rating as a search requirement.

Ratings

Stars	Range
	Unrated
	0.50–0.74
	0.75–1.24
	1.25–1.74
	1.75–2.24
	2.25–2.74
	2.75–3.24
	3.25–3.74
	3.75–4.24
	4.25–4.74
	4.75–5.00

Rewards

Users who rate galleries (as well as those who post or vote on comments) are rewarded points on the Rating & Reviewing Toplist. There is a cap of 100 points per day for rating.

History

Originally, there was an intermediate step between each whole star, which made it possible to give a gallery 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 or 4.5 stars; this was removed for performance reasons. Note that galleries whose first parent was published after the ability to give half stars was removed cannot have an average rating lower than 1.0. (Ratings below 0.5 have never been possible.)

See also

• The Review System