# Topic Ratings Plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-ratings-plugin/39578>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** pavilion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-ratings-plugin/39578 "2016-02-14T21:06:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-ratings-plugin/39578/13 "2016-02-23T14:11:38Z")

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I have made sure the topic averages will not be applied to new topics in a non-ratings category or without the ratings tag. Unfortunately this won’t fix existing topics with empty ratings you’ve made in your instance. If that is a significant issue, I’ll see if I can figure out how to fix it.

[https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-ratings/commit/22444911758280e519f5908cacf259da53df2a57](https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-ratings/commit/22444911758280e519f5908cacf259da53df2a57)

> Right now, every post can vote, even when that user has already replied and voted in the thread.

I can’t reproduce this one. Could you check again if you re-install the plugin. Thanks.

> If you do not vote, it counts as 0 stars. I don’t think this is the correct way to handle it: A non-vote should not influence the average at all. And just posting into a thread which can rate should not lower the average opinion about the topic. Besides, once you have klicked onto 1-5 stars, you can never go back to 0 stars, so even if there just had to be a default vote, it would not be correct.

Yes this is an issue. I think the way to handle it is if the user does not select a rating in a post, that post does not get a rating included. That user could still post on that topic with a rating in another post. Of course, once I add the setting to prevent a user posting in a ratings topic more than once, I will have to require that the user adds a rating to their single post. I will fix this one within the next two days.

> And a wishlist item: Some way to see the precise average, and how many people have rated the topic how highly. Kinda obvious if you look at amazon or wherever. Just making sure. 😉

Yes this is possible. I think I’ll add it next to the topic stars and add later a setting to show/hide it. I will do this one on the weekend.

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