User Ratings

This is a simple User Rating System, I hope you guys like it.

Features:

• Rate another User 1 to 5 points.
• Users can see how they rated a user before
• Votes are updated to avoid cheating
• Users can see who rated them but not how (works like the whoposted stuff)

Anyway
BACKUP YOUR DATABASE and ENJOY

German version available in my forums.

Screenshot

[Lesane]

Originally posted by trilOByte
here's a zip with the transparent gif's that I made (see above post) if anyone wants them....

Thanks

[JJR512]

Originally posted by EXCHANGE
Features:

• Rate another User 1 to 5 points.
• Users can see how they rated a user before
• Votes are updated to avoid cheating
• Users can see who rated them but not how (works like the whoposted stuff)

How does the last one work? I can't see anywhere who has rated me.

[trilOByte]

The number of votes under your rating is an active link to a popup with usernames of those who have voted for you.

[EXCHANGE]

Originally posted by JJR512

How does the last one work? I can't see anywhere who has rated me.

Actually this function is only avalaible for user who have been rated 3 times to avoid bad blood

@ trilOByte

Nice work

[trilOByte]

Originally posted by EXCHANGE


@ trilOByte

Nice work

Thank you for posting the hack - awsome stuff

BTW, in the user profile, if a user has not yet been rated, it says (next to the drop down box) "last rating: keine" or something like that. I'm guessing this is german or something - what do I edit to change it to "last rating: none" or whatever?

Thanks

[EXCHANGE]

none would be correct. Sorry for this.

[Justice]

can this be set to user group restrictions?
This seems like a great hack, but I'd only want members in certain user groups and moderators to be able to rate members, not just anyone.

[bokhalifa]

good hack

[JJR512]

I'm sorry to say that I've had to click the Uninstall button on this thread.

Don't get me wrong, this is a great hack. Very well written; I didn't have any problems with it, aside from a few German/English language confusions, as mentioned by others here earlier.

The reason why I've removed this hack from my board after having some time to look at it and how people were using it, it seemed that it would ultimately do more harm to my board's community than good. One thing I noticed right away was that some people who got low ratings right away just turned this feature off for themselves. But my main concern, however, was that people who got low ratings might feel as if they weren't wanted, and would stop visiting my board.

Some might say this is a good thing. Maybe it's even the point of the hack. If someone acts a certain way on a message board that the majority of the membership doesn't like, then maybe giving that member a low rating will give that person the hint that they should move on. But getting rid of the small amount of members that most people don't like will leave a message board with a community of people who are all pretty much the same. Then things get boring. I think a little bit of tension or conflict isn't necessarily a bad thing.

So I'm not knocking this hack; maybe for some communities that want to be a bit more agressive with filtering out the non-desriable people, this is a good thing. I just wanted to point out to people to really consider if they want to start something on their board that may lead to ill feelings.

[Justice]

wow, I wish my board worked like that. when people there realize that they're not wanted, that's when they become harder to get rid of.