Please make star rating optional!

Our group has been going strong for nearly 2 years and we love all that meetup offers. But why have the star rating? We know what it is there for, you don't need to explain.
I am sure other organizers out there hate it when they put so much work into an event only to have a negative person rate it low simply for the fact that nothing in their eyes is worth 5 stars! We are so sick of this star rating determining the quality of our group.
We ask that you please consider making this optional for individual groups. Thanks =)

The Renton Moms Group

I absolutely agree. I take such pride in my group and I have like 3 members who rate everything negative like 1 star. I had one rate a home event 1 star. That is so rude to the person who offered up their home for 20 moms and kids to make a mess in.

I can agree with this. I have read comments about a meetup and seen the star ratings and they don't correlate. The comments will say how great and event was, I will receive compliments from the same people wanting to go back, and then those same people will rate it 3 and 4 stars.

Perhaps to get a 5 star rating is about as hard as a hotel receiving a 5 Diamond Award.

There has to be a better system to determine a meetup's rating.

-Chris

Another aggreement.....star ratings do not help our abilities at all..comments are more useful. I would encourage MU to make the event reviews comments only. It would encourage the members to write why it actually was 'bad' and maybe encourage them to write what would make it better.

I agree as well. We have one member who will never rate any event better than 4, even if she absolutely loved it! Since we only have 30 members and often have less than 10 members attend, that 4 can really drag us down. We also have members who enjoyed the event, but not the venue, but rate the event low because of the venue.

The comments are what I find very useful; good and bad.

Michele

Michele,

You bring up an excellent point. People will rate an event low based on the venue, DESPITE there being an event rating area lower down. Very confusing and people don't take the time to comprehend that they are doing a double rating of the venue. I know I used to do it all the time.

-Chris

I agree, too. Especially because competing group organizers like to sign up for fake profiles, RSVP for events and then intentionally give them bad ratings. We had this happen last week and this week.

I agree, too. Especially because competing group organizers like to sign up for fake profiles, RSVP for events and then intentionally give them bad ratings. We had this happen last week and this week.

This has happened in our group as well, and it is so frustrating. I would like to see the star ratings optional, or even better, eliminated altogether. I really dislike that even when the organizer marks members as absent at a meetup, that these members are still able to rate the event via the email that meetup sends out. The organizer's edit of the attendance of members who truly came out to an event should override and nullify the replies to the automatic "Rate your meeting" emails.

I totally agree. As an organizer, I don't think it's constructive at all. The comments are helpful but the star rating should be optional.