I offered 3 methods to earn a Rating Badge … 3
Those who post recipes and don’t participate in the forum would earn a badge by sharing 5 original recipes … This does not require a donation or participation in the forums. THEY STILL EARN A BADGE
Those who can’t or won’t donate can share 5 original recipes or have 100 forum posts … Will STILL EARN A BADGE.
Those who do not share recipes can donate to elr or participate in the forum … guess what … THEY STILL EARN A BADGE.
I apologize that I worded it to be easily misinterpreted.
This is us today:
Rating are always going to be a problem because they are subjective. Also I would assume most users do not visit the forum.
When I first found the site, I was rating the recipes I mixed based on how they tasted to me, not how good of a recipe it was and gave low ratings to some of the top recipes. This way I knew later on that I din’t like them.
Since then, I have stopped rating recipes unless it is a positive review because people seem to get really upset about low ratings.
TLDR; People use rating for different purposes and many don’t view the forum.
You do bring up some valid points. Maybe it is better that we just don’t make any changes and leave everything as is …