Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Irrelevant/reply (45)

No, Crakkerjakk, you are lying about what I said.

Many people might choose to rate articles.

Only an idiot or insecure person would (1) think "Great article" after reading it, (2) look at the accumulated ratings and see that they're low, and then (3) decide "I guess I was wrong; it must be a bad article, because everybody else hates it".

This is the process you say happens all the time. That is the only possible mechanism by which the accumulated ratings can harm readers' perceptions of the articles you write.

It is my belief that the readers do not have this problem: It is my belief that readers do not radically change their perception of an article based on other people's ratings. It is therefore my belief that the tool is not recruiting readers with this problem.