said by jack b :

No, It's a feature on every single thread that gets posted, everywhere on the site.
I don't know the threshold, but it seems only a few votes are needed, and some number makes the thread title bar green.
If enough readers feel it's a worthwhile topic and elect to "vote", it gets automatically archived and listed under "rated" threads.

Here, for this purpose ,this defeats what I believe is the intent of rating threads.

I didn't intentionally vote, I clicked every radio button and the last one "took". Like I said before, each updates thread is worthy of tons of praise, a lot of effort goes into it.

It's just not worthy of archiving.

said by CalamityJane :

I agree with jack b

Those daily stickies should not be archived. They certainly aren't worth seeing in the "Rated" listing. If you appreciate the topic, give a private thumbs up instead, but I would rather not see them green everyday too (or in the Rated archives)

Aside: The funny thing is I never figured out how to rate a thread after the old topic thumbs up vote disappeared LOL. Just now found it with this topic

said by Hutch :

Same as you Janie. I never figured out that the thread rating was there.