Hi y'all,

Having been away recently (at work, not in a fitted canvas jacket with the men in white coats!), I came back to find a form of rating system implemented.

Whilst the comments can tell more or at least be more precise, I think this was a wonderful idea and the voting mechanism updates the tally without having to reload the page. For us poor dial-up merchants with slow data rates, this is marvellous!

I do however have one small gripe and that is that the ratings only display those on the 'front page'.

This is fine when people are being fairly sedate about posting new stories, but when they go nuts and start posting all over the place, stories get pushed off fairly quickly, no matter how good they are or how fast people are reading them.

Us writers (arty-farty types as Kristina LS called me in an email) write for our own satisfaction and joy of it, but would like to know what others think of our efforts and in lieu of comments, this 'out of five' voting system seems to work just fine.

So where then, are the other ratings stored? How can we get to see them if we read stories that are not on the front page?

I have noticed too that all the stories I have written have these voting thingies attached at the bottom, but I have yet to see what this amounts to. Even though voting started late on, these stories are still being read and presumably, some may even vote.

Being someone who attracts few comments, yet seems to get fairly high numbers of readers (according that is, to the number of hits I get for my some of my stories), this voting system would be invaluable to me to see what those people who do take the millisecond to vote, thought in a general sense.

Is there a way that votes cast can be viewed?

Have I just been thick and missed the link?

Can someone enlighten me?

Yours in eager anticipation,

Nick B