how do i *force* a user to rate when submitting a reply?
 

what template do i edit, and what do i change in order to force a user to select a rating for when they reply to a thread?

Edit newreply_ratethread template and removed this:
And it might even work! :)

BTW, you might want to replace this:
With this:
So Average will be selected by default.

doesnt work :(

you know when you goto REPLY to a thread, it has a pulldown box to let you select 1 -5? well if a user doesnt select anything, how do you make it popup a window and say "Please rate this before submitting"? in other words the user is forced to select a rating, if he doesn't then a popup window will prompt the user to rate it, kind of like a required field... thats what i want to do.

Works for me.

it does? so if you dont select a rating, it will pop up a window and tell you to rate it b4 submitting?

on mine, if i dont select anything, it still submits the post, which i dont want it to...

i want it to popup a window if a user doesnt select a rating, telling him/her to select a rating from the dropdown list b4 he continues.

thats what im trying to do....

My way just doesn't let users choose the "No Rating" option.

do you think you can make it where it pops up a window if a user doesnt select anything from the rating drop down list? do you know how to do it like that please? :(

Nope.

nope you don't know how to do it, or nope you don't want to tell me? please help me out

I think what FireFly means is that you should try to do it yourself instead of asking others to do it all for you.

That way you will learn something.