An idea for the new vb.org - mod ratings not anonymous

[kh99]

Originally Posted by vbenhancer

... use a "Like" button for facebook, people will share their findings with their friends... THAT will bring people here.

...to find out that they can't see anything if they're unlicensed. That may be a good idea for most other sites but I don't think it's needed for this one.

I agree that you should just ignore ratings on your mods, I think people are just happy to actually find something that might do what they want, I doubt they will worry about 4 vs 5 stars. (And BOP5, I thought you might have been talking about yourself, but a quick look shows that you still have quite a few 5 star averages).

If it were a problem then one possibility might be to use a better algorithm other than just the average of the votes, but I doubt anyone cares enough to bother.

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by kh99

...to find out that they can't see anything if they're unlicensed.

unlicensed persons who visit here will be aware that vBulletin exists... this has an impact on sales. if they find the software interesting, they may be also willing to purchase it and come back to use the products that are released here.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I have absolutely no idea what any of my mods have been rated. And, I've never looked at any ratings on any other mods. I guess I'm just strange. :/

Same thing here as well. I haven''t bothered to check the rating on my mods too. Personally I do not see what all the fuss is about.

[Digital Jedi]

Our mods have ratings?

[Paul M]

Indeed they do.

[punchbowl]

I'd drop ratings altogether. The amount of times I've seen fine mods badly rated (obviously by cranks/competitors) makes the whole thing a farce. Downloads/installs is a far better indicator.

[Alfa1]

True. Ratings say very little, without specifying what exactly is rated. I'll bet that quite a few people rate mods that they have not installed yet, but simply (dis)like the idea.

[Digital Jedi]

Or we could be looking at the ratings thing wrong altogether. I once rated a guy's song on another website four stars because I thought it was good. He complained because I didn't explain why I "rated it down". See, people at this particular website seemed to think even if you remotely liked a song, anything less than five stars was a poor rating. I don't get that. That makes the whole purpose of having stars meaningless. Of course the rating will go down the more people rate it. Which would you prefer, 100 ratings that average three stars, or one guy who gave it five? I mean, if we're going to rate like that, we might as well just have a Like button instead, because we're not even paying attention to the overall averages. (Hence the reason why nobody on Facebook is ever going to get a Dislike button. No matter how much they complain.)

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

True. Ratings say very little, without specifying what exactly is rated. I'll bet that quite a few people rate mods that they have not installed yet, but simply (dis)like the idea.

Or (dis)like the author, for whatever reason.

[Digital Jedi]

I think if you know how to read ratings, you know how to account for users who are just rating it to bash for no reason. Kind of like eBay. A user can have 800 positive ratings, but there's always those three to four people who think he's the Commerce Antichrist because their plate shipped broken or they were sent the wrong color Furbie.