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Maybe being sent to a different site after viewing a link was what caused this, or perhaps it just wasn’t that interesting a feature. All that said, we’ve nixed Post Ratings on the BLAB for the time being. Maybe in the future we’ll re-implement but for the meantime, it just was a function that wasn’t being utilized enough to warrant keeping it.

Meanwhile, comments are open. What’s on your mind about the BLAB? It’s been a long time since we had an open comment thread…

What’s up, Tampa Bay Bloggers and blog readers? Chat away about anything and everything in comments on this post.

By the way, we’d love to have some feedback ont eh Post Ratings system here ont eh BLAB – is it something to keep around or something to ditch? Not many people are participating right now… So your opinion about the system (keepign it, losing it, how to change it) counts mightily.

Maybe you’ve noticed it the last few days here on TampaBLAB (but you have every reason to have missed it, with thanks to the holidays) but we’ve added a rating system to posts. At the bottom of every post on the front page you have the choice of rating that post as one-to-five stars.

Of course, this system depends on a few things — like you, first and foremost. Yeah, you. If you don’t participate in the rating of posts you have checked out, then how will people know if they’re good or not? Secondly, it depends on people being honest and not childish. It’s easy to go around rating people you don’t like with a low rating, and rewarding your friends with higher ratings.

So try it out. We’ll see how it goes.