Meaning of Thread "Rating"?

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Can anyone please explain the meaning of the “Rating” percentage displayed for each thread on the forums?

I’ve looked through the FAQs and done a thorough search of the site, and I’m not able to find an explanation.

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Good question!

The rating is calculated as the ratio between the thanks count of a post/topic and the thanks count of the most thanked post/topic. You can see the most thanked topic on this page (look for "Friedman BE-OD Pedal [traced]") and the most thanked post here. And, no, I don't know why the most thanked post does not have a 100% rating.

LATER EDIT: In case you're curious, the topic has 462 thanks and the post has 70. There, you have your targets now :lol:.

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Thanks so much!

I've been curious about the rating "system" since I joined the forum.
I'm just surprised there is no explanation in the FAQs or elsewhere, given that the stat is displayed so prominently in the heading of each thread.

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The FAQ comes with phpBB as core files and is stupidly complicated to modify. Maybe one day...

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