How do I undo a rating

I clicked on a rating just to see how it would effect the over all score but I didn't mean for it to be permanent. I tried clicking it again but it didn't seem to work. How do I undo this rating? Does a moderator need to be involved? Thanks. 

Tapfret is on the forum at the moment.

You can edit reviews / ratings if you want to post your review.

DamoXt7942 wrote: You can edit reviews / ratings if you want to post your review. I will delete your rating (BOLT?) if you don't do so.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - May 22 2021 at 09:17

You talk sweet things to it, buy it some flowers and then gently remove its bra.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: It's still there. I'll have to contact someone I guess.

Leave it until tomorrow. You might change your mind.

^ Only an admin can delete a rating completely. You can edit your rating at anytime just by clicking on the appropriate star whilst you're logged into the main site, but there is no means of getting rid of the rating altogether unfortunately.

It's all too easy to accidentally rate an album when you're logged into the main site by carelessly clicking on the row of grey stars just above the link to an album on an artist's main page instead of the link itself, and it's happened to me half a dozen times now, usually when I've been in a rush to get things done late at night and not really focussing on what I'm doing.

I just edited each accidental rating to 4 stars as a temporary solution to the error, since this neither unfairly penalises an artist nor overpraises them to any great extent, but after the number of unintentional ratings I had made had reached six, I got Greg to delete them all for me.

The effect of a single rating on the overall score of an album is fairly insignificant anyway if a decent number of reviews have been posted for that album, since a rating is given a weight of only 1, whereas a review is given a weight of 10 and a review by a collaborator a weight of 20 when calculating the overall score of an album. If the album has no reviews and only a few ratings, then the effect of an unintentional rating will become significant, however.

Edit: I wouldn't mind betting that quite a significant number of ratings have been added to the site accidentally without people realising that they've done it due to the really close proximity of that row of grey stars to the album link just below it on an artist's main page.

M@X could make the site a whole lot better imho if he removed these rows of clickable grey stars from the artist's main pages altogether, so that you had to actually go to an album page itself in order to be able to add a rating, and where the row of clickable grey stars is located well away from any other clickable links, and thus far less likely to be clicked upon accidentally.

Edited by yam yam - 20 hours 21 minutes ago at 07:40

^ I'm pretty sure that as an admin you can simply delete a rating without the need for a review to be written. Greg deleted the six ratings that I had accidentally added without the need for me to write any reviews, and that was quite recently - at the beginning of May this year.