Rating questions and answers?

Question

Can we rate questions and answers with stars or emoticons?

Comments

Isn't this what the voting system is for?

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I was thinking 0 out of 5 stars rating kind of thing

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It's what the votes are for. The more votes you have the better the answer is with BA being the Best Answer.

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Well say, if somebody comments they can choose to rate it with stars. They can up vote too of course

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It feels quite redundant to have two voting systems, one is enough.

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maybe swap the voting up for star ratings

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Why replace a system that works?

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The up-vote and down-vote system is already good enough... I don't think rating with stars will change anything...

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Yeah I don't really find this necessary...

Answer 1

Flafpert is spot on in the comments:

It feels quite redundant to have two voting systems, one is enough.

The current system is sort of a rating out of 3:

• 1 star = bad = downvote
• 2 stars = OK = no vote
• 3 stars = good = upvote

There's no point adding extra complexity for no real benefit.