[Findings](/findings/index.md) / UX-025

# Ratings never reach the author

Open · high severity · gap · newsroom.sgit.ai

## What we saw

Ratings stay in the reader's browser unless they choose to send their whole reading record.

## Why it matters

The first contacts sent to the site teach the author nothing about what landed.

## The fix

One-tap send by default, with plain consent ("Send this rating to Dinis, anonymous"), through the encrypted append lane, with a local receipt.

## The record

| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Open |
| **Severity** | High |
| **Kind** | Gap: something the reader needs is not there |
| **Product** | [newsroom.sgit.ai](/findings/?product=newsroom.sgit.ai), site |
| **Where** | <https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/> |
| **Problems** | [Missing channel](/findings/?problem=missing-channel) |
| **Visibility** | [Silent](/findings/?visibility=silent): no symptom on screen: found only by measuring, or by its consequences |
| **Recommendation** | [Open a channel](/findings/?recommendation=open-a-channel): send it to a person by default, with consent, and give the reader a receipt |
| **Area** | [Feedback](/findings/?area=feedback) |
| **Breaks** | [Feedback reaches someone, and the reader gets a receipt](/principles/index.md#feedback-reaches-someone) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.6.4 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.7.1 |
| **Source** | [Review: article page and feedback](/reviews/newsroom-2026-10-11.md#article-page-and-feedback) |
| **Prototype** | [Article & reader primitives](/lab/index.md#newsroom-proto-article), route `feedback`, in three directions |

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