Meetup forces us both into an awkward position with the seemingly innocuous star rating system. As a teacher I always wanted feedback. However, I did not want the feedback engraved in large letters on my forehead, nor posted via a big sign on my classroom door. As a student you would never want your GPA posted on your forehead. That would be crazy. However, this is the situation with Meetup. It's actually worse, because Meetup via the star rating system on the home page, broadcasts ratings worldwide.

The people being rated, the organizers, do all the work for next to zippo money! When is the last time you volunteered for 100 hours of service and somebody criticized you for your efforts!

And of course, this rating system is not needed. You rate Hiking Around Philly by joining, remaining, and signing up for events. I should add that the Meetup people forcing this rating system on us do not allow us to rate them, nor display the rating they would receive on the top of every meetup page.

Unfortunately while we are stuck with this system, I suggest you make the effort to rate every event as 5-star or do not rate the event at all. If you have a problem following this system, then you need to let me know.

Looking around Meetup blogs, I find that many organizers have a problem with this ridiculous system.

How To Change (or make) A Star Rating
A- The easy way:
1) use the link in the original email.
2) or find the url in the History section of browser.

B- If you can't find that email:
1- Go to the event page for the event you want to rate.
2- You might be able to just click the 'Rate it" link. If not, then go to step 3.
3- Look at the browser URL address at the top of the page that starts with http://... The end of the address will look like this example:
www.hikingaroundphilly.com/calendar/12680073/
4- The event ID number in this example is: 12680073
5- Put the event ID Number into this link where it says EVENTIDNUMBER:
www.hikingaroundphilly.com/events/survey/?eventId=EVENTIDNUMBER&a=cp1_l1
6- It looks like this:
www.hikingaroundphilly.com/events/survey/?eventId=12680073&a=cp1_l1
7- Copy and Paste this link into your browser to change your rating. Don't leave any spaces and make sure to copy the whole line.
Thank you.