Thread:Talk:Article feedback/more effective to engage casual readers on talk page?/reply (5)

Cynwolfe, I like some of your questions, but I'm still trying to figure out the mechanism behind reader ratings supposedly "unduly damag[ing] the credibility of individual articles". How exactly is this supposed to happen? Maybe the reader reads the article, forms an opinion, clicks through to the ratings (which most won't do), and then chucks his own opinion out the window in favor of the ratings?

I'm not stupid enough to do that. You aren't stupid enough to do that. Do you think the typical reader is stupid enough to do that?