---
title: Using content rating in message boards
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

[Message boards](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/message-boards.md) web parts - **Message board** and **Group message board list** - have content rating features embedded. This enables live site users to submit a rating along with a comment posted to the message board. To enable content rating features of these web parts, configure the following properties:

- **Enable content rating** - if checked, content rating features of the web part will be enabled.
- **Rating type** - appearance of the web part. Choose from Stars, Radio-buttons or Drop-down list.
- **Max rating value** - size of the rating scale; e.g. if 7 is entered, rating will be possible on a scale from 1 to 7

When leaving a board message, the rating control (determined by the Rating type property) will be displayed above the Name field. Users can select their rating and after sending the message, the rating will be applied.

 ![1](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/using-content-rating-in-message-boards/1.png)