ChatGPT Response Rating Feature Missing
Sometime before May 6th, the thumbs up and thumbs down rating buttons beneath ChatGPT's web responses quietly disappeared. No announcement preceded it, no changelog entry explained it — just absence where something used to be. The person who surfaced it on May 6th wrote with the particular weariness of someone who had waited patiently for a bug to fix itself, then finally stopped waiting. What sharpened that complaint into something worth paying attention to was the asymmetry: the buttons remained intact on mobile, which ruled out a simple deprecation and pointed instead toward either a staged rollout gone sideways or a platform-specific decision that nobody at OpenAI had bothered to communicate. Then on May 14th, a second user reported the same gap — same platform, same silence. Eight days apart, two independent accounts, no resolution in between. That is not a glitch resolving itself. That is a glitch settling in.
If confirmed, here is what this means. The rating buttons are not decorative — they are one of the primary feedback mechanisms through which OpenAI calibrates model behaviour at scale. Removing them from the web interface, even temporarily, creates a blind spot in the data that shapes future fine-tuning. For everyday users, the loss is smaller but still real: there is no longer a frictionless way to signal when a response was genuinely useful or genuinely wrong. The asymmetry with mobile is the detail that carries the most strategic weight. If OpenAI is deliberately funnelling feedback collection through the app, that suggests a push toward mobile engagement metrics — or, less charitably, a quiet narrowing of the feedback surface without the community discussion such a change probably warrants.
Watch for any OpenAI changelog entry or subreddit acknowledgment that addresses web-specific UI changes around the rating feature. A third independent report from a user on a different account or browser configuration would shift this from a probable rollout issue to something more deliberate.
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>For a few days now, the upvote and downvote buttons for a response are gone from the ChatGPT web UI. There is no way anymore for me to convey how
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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The button I used to create a chat (the pen inside a rounded square) is not working as before. It shows a config (instant, thinking, pro) that I
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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Where did standard voice mode go on Chatgpt desktop?? I just got back to work after taking some time off and it's gone. I use it constantly to
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've noticed that when I go to edit a message, there's no option to, has this feature been removed or is it a bug? </p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello.<br /> Since ChatGPT was updated, it frequently stops with a ■ and I can’t continue the conversation. Is this happening only to me?<br />
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