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new "star" ratings

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I was rating a skin via my new homepage, which if I had gone thru the normal channels I would have given a 9 to. However, as there are only 5 stars in all, and it wasn't quite a perfect 10, I decided to click on the 4 star rating. Later on I was checking out the same skin, but this time via the normal WC library and I saw that I had apparently rated it a 7, which was certainly not indicative of my opinion.

So I decided to go thru all the stars and see what each one translated as:
5 stars=10
4 stars=7
3 stars=5
2 stars=3
1 star=1

it seems, if I use the star sytem to rate, I can either rate something that's pretty-darn-good-but-not-quite-perfect a 10... or a 7.

personally I'd like to keep the marks out of 10 system as it gives a broader choice, but failing that...well, I'm not sure, but the tarif as detailed above seems flawed to me.
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
All stars have points, five at least!
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So the wieghted system is in place.
Is the system documented anywhere publically yet?
Just curious to see how the "wieghted" part works.
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
#51 by JourneyMan gef - 10/2/2004 10:37:05 AM All stars have points, five at least!


good point!

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Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

1 star = I just got up and found out I have to go out to get coffee
2 star = I just got up and have to wait for coffee to make
3 star = I just got up and can smell coffee making
4 star = I just got up and had my first few sips of coffee
5 star = YEEEEHAAAA, had a cup of that goooood  strong jave and I'm ready to roll....

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Is a four pointed star called a square?
(and with that, Jafo ends this thread. I'm guessing.)
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
@ GM....
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sheesh... Why on earth isn't a "GameSpot-like" rating system in place here on WC? Let a user rate a skin based on at least 5 different categories, and then let them give the skin (author) a "tilt" (personal overall) rating. Then calculate the actual rating from that and add it to the skin's overall rating. Then the rating system would make sense and be helpful and useful! That way, everybody wins. Please, please, could this please be implemented?
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good idea, CaveBear. That also might eliminate the guy who goes down the list giving everyone a 10 or a 1, because it actually will take more than one second to rate someone's work. I like it.
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, well, I don't care for the stars at all...it's just another way of getting a bad rating but still NOT knowing what you need to work on...
When I get a low rating, I would really like to know why...WHAT is it specifically, that I need to work on for my next skin.


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Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My edit dissapeard?
My I double post??
And I want to add, that....I won't say the skin name...but anyway, I saw a skis & made a comment ob how great it was...then downloaded and tried it...went back and gave it a high rating...I combined what I thought when I saw it, with the features, with the orgionality, and with what I thought about it from a user's point....functionability...
The rating was high even though, for ME, the functionability was rather low...everything else about it was high...
I then went back and made another comment to explain what made the skin hard for me to use...I think that's the "key" to ratings...learning what needs to be fixed...understanding that you can't please all the people all the time...but a skin shouldn't get a low rating because it blue...or even a high rating because it blue.

The thing is that some people will rate and never comment...OR even worse people will say something like "It's really bad"...ok, nice to know...but WHY is is bad...There was a WB, that's now been deleted...several "It's ugly, or bad...etc..." But very few "WHYS"

If there was a rating system like I suggested...and I'm sure others have too...then a person doesn't necessarily have to comment for the author to know what to work on.