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aqcheryl
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Is there a way to add a rating system, in such a way that users can rate a (first post) and so when you do a search result, they can be sorted by rating?
For example, say you search for vista xp, and up comes this humongous list of page results, and you dont know where to begin - which program really works, etc, and it can end up taking hours going through all the old posts...
and I was thinking when someone posts a program, and peeps start to download it, after they install and such, they can go to the post and rate it. Like either a "thumbs up or down" button up by the thanks button. And then when you query you could sort or such. |
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 Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:59 amThanks: 72Thanked 12 Times In 9 Posts
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i dont understand how this idea would work..
basically when u do a search just take a flick thru an see what topics are most popular. These ones will have comments from people that have tried and can say yay or nay
and they already use the thanks button if they like it - check under the 1st post
also if something did go wrong and it didnt install etc they will just come back and write and tell everything as so to find a solution
i dont think people would wanna do thumbs down if they have wasted heaps of usage - they would rather post and find out what the problem is and how to fix it
thats just my opinion - what do other people think??? |
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Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:36 amThanks: 6Thanked 379 Times In 95 Posts
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| I dunno, because O/S's are the only things that are double posted on this forum, because for the rest there is only 1 post so the system isn't needed... |
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| kris_boi wrote: |
i dont understand how this idea would work..
basically when u do a search just take a flick thru an see what topics are most popular. These ones will have comments from people that have tried and can say yay or nay
and they already use the thanks button if they like it - check under the 1st post
also if something did go wrong and it didnt install etc they will just come back and write and tell everything as so to find a solution
i dont think people would wanna do thumbs down if they have wasted heaps of usage - they would rather post and find out what the problem is and how to fix it
thats just my opinion - what do other people think??? |
well the problem with looking for posts with most comments is that it doesnt at all say the program (etc) is good. Sometimes the ones with the most comments are because they have so many errors or something is wrong with the program.
The thanks button doesnt work because its just saying thanks. Its not saying, 'hey I downloaded it, tested it, works great'. You could give thanks before trying to install. You could give thanks even after install even if it doesnt work - you are thanking the person for their efforts. Because not everything posted is created or done by the poster, they are just forwarding it on. So the thanks is not applicable in this sense.
the thumbs down would kind of like for 'program doesnt do what it says' or something.
anyways the thumbs up/down thing is an example of a rating, just an idea of how to do one.
Its to avoid flicking through 40 odd pages looking for a needle in the haystack.
I figured if the idea was implemented (if), it would really be the forum administrators who would figure out the best way to have the search results poll... : |
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Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:33 amThanks: 72Thanked 12 Times In 9 Posts
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ok point taken
well im still saying it wud be a waste of time as not many people have complained aboout it to make it a worrying problem
but lets see what the admins say and mods,
people like nosorry and mister x wada u guys think |
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Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:59 amThanks: 6Thanked 379 Times In 95 Posts
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I do not see any rationality in the above equation.
lets have a look on this illustration:
i have posted an OS: vista sp1 x86, x64 all editions.
till now at least 187 users have downloaded this DVD but see the thanks and comments counts. 14 users have thanked it and almost double of this have posted with complaint. their complaint is not the result of any short-comings of this dvd but others. When u r satisfied with anything, u used to forget to appreciate in general but when u are angry with anything u will certainly pass your comments in general.
so, now u can imagine the result of any good post and their impression on the new comers if your above suggestion is implemented. |
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Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:05 amThanks: 490Thanked 1782 Times In 490 Posts
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| kris_boi wrote: |
ok point taken
well im still saying it wud be a waste of time as not many people have complained aboout it to make it a worrying problem
but lets see what the admins say and mods,
people like nosorry and mister x wada u guys think |
well im not complaining, just suggesting  |
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Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:36 pmThanks: 72Thanked 12 Times In 9 Posts
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| bodmas wrote: |
I do not see any rationality in the above equation.
lets have a look on this illustration:
i have posted an OS: vista sp1 x86, x64 all editions.
till now at least 187 users have downloaded this DVD but see the thanks and comments counts. 14 users have thanked it and almost double of this have posted with complaint. their complaint is not the result of any short-comings of this dvd but others. When u r satisfied with anything, u used to forget to appreciate in general but when u are angry with anything u will certainly pass your comments in general.
so, now u can imagine the result of any good post and their impression on the new comers if your above suggestion is implemented. |
If you dont see the rationality then you are not understanding what Im trying to say... I apologize, Im not the most articulate.
My suggestion is solely in reference to search queries.
The rating system is just an example (and really, Im not a programmer or whatever, I dont know what other options there would be) of an idea of implementation. It was the only way I could think of... but if it doesnt work, it doesnt work, there must be another way to do it.
Take a look at your example. You have a good program right? [rhetorical ?] But say the topic dies down and the people dont post for quite some time. And someone comes to search awhile later - your thread will not be in the top results. It could be on page 19 of 60.
My suggestion is to make/allow a search query so that posts like yours would be top results. And so that it doesnt get lost.
Right now the only way you see top results is if people keep posting. If they stop, it wont be in the top results anymore.
And the thanks means nothing in search results. Youd have to go into each and every single thread to see the thanks to know how many times they have been thanked - defeating the purpose. |
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Date Posted:Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:54 pmThanks: 72Thanked 12 Times In 9 Posts
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I think the idea about putting the best threads to the top is a good idea but I don't think the forum needs to implement a rating system to do this. They could add a feature to the Search so that it can order the results by the amount of Thanks the first post has. Surely this would be less work than to add a whole new feature.  |
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| Dackstar wrote: |
| I think the idea about putting the best threads to the top is a good idea but I don't think the forum needs to implement a rating system to do this. They could add a feature to the Search so that it can order the results by the amount of Thanks the first post has. Surely this would be less work than to add a whole new feature. |
See, I like that, that could work. If you could see the thanks  |
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That would probably be easier to implement.  |
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| rating would be really good to filter out best softwares used by many users.. but I guess its much similar to poll section.. still not sure but nice idea |
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There should be an option for users reading a thread to rate a post on whether the post was valueable to not valuable to the thread.. up to add value in forms of point value and down in terms or subtract from current point value. This would also enable the ability to sort the thread to have the most valuable post first (under the authors first post of course) and then have the less valuable posts after the valueable ones, sequencially. On top of this the author can pick a post to signify what answer (if the author requested an answer/ enable the answer option) he chose - and letting other users know what worked.
I think there should be an option for when someone creates a thread to enable this functionality.
idk if you know what im talking about...i tried.
edit: wow i just read dackstars...very similar lol
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