[futureal]

Kura: I guess what you are saying is a bit different than what others had said earlier in the thread. Having a simple Yes/No Approved seems like a better idea to me than a percent-based rating. Either it meets the standards or it doesn't.

As far as public comments, I still agree that the Quality Assurance team should communicate with the author in private.

This whole system sounds like a nice idea for the end user, but risks making it more complicated and less friendly to the hacker. Part of what I like about vb.org is that there are tons of different ideas implemented in tons of different ways here, and anybody is free to do it. I wouldn't want to see this system "crowding out" some of the guys who come in just to write one hack here or there.

The other risk is that you are making the process more complicated. Just like my opinion of the hack subforums: the more unnecessarily complex things become, the less useful they become.

This is a good idea, it just needs careful implementation.