slennox: rating system for the Tcl Archive?

demond · Post by **demond** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:48 am

rationale: many people don't have a clue which script would suit them best, download first available or random one (chances are it will be lame - we all know that most scripts there are, mildly put, naive), and then get frustrated when it turns out the script won't work (in many cases even load) as advertised

now, I can imagine that fair rating system is fairly hard to implement, but I believe you can come up with something

Post by **slennox** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:58 pm

Yes, something is needed. The problem is simply time. Weekend is already eaten up upgrading the forum. As you know, it's not hard to implement a rudimentary ratings system, but one that is decent and not open to abuse would take time.

Best I could do at the moment is add a prominent "featured" scripts category which highlights the best scripts. I recall proposing a kind of "hall of fame" some time ago but didn't get many nominations. Perhaps they'll come once the section is actually up. Will need a few to start with, though, so if anyone has any suggestions, just reply here. Would probably be a good idea to stick to scripts that are likely to have wide appeal.

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:51 pm

rconsole by demond should get the ball rolling.

demond · Post by **demond** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:04 am

well, you could restrict the voting to be allowed for (forum) registered users only, one vote per script, while limiting registration rate by IP/email (or better yet, allow only users with that many postings or more to rank scripts)

just my 2c

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:42 am

Voting based on rank would seem to be a bit more reliable and definitely not prone to abuse. Just a thought along similar lines to demond.

Linux · Post by **Linux** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:53 am

Hello everyone,
nice idea

First of all we have to categorized the scripts as per their descriptions and/or functions because we have so many scripts and without compartmentalization it seems odd and little hard to clearify users that which script is good for them.
Well, we have two systems one is "Rating" and other one is "Ranking" voting based on rank is reliable but can't we combine both the things in one? like, if a script get a vote its rating becomes high and automatically its rank moves upwards or you can say promotes as compare to other scripts, possible?

-REGARDS-

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:07 pm

Maybe a comments system as well? where users can post their comments about a script (if that's not too much).

Linux · Post by **Linux** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:19 pm

right, well the above discussion is for those scripts we have or published. I've an idea for Furture purpose.

Read the following:
Every Script Author should be a board member.
Before publishing TCL Scripts on TCL Archive page first POLL start for every script and if its approve then it will publish otherwise no.
Ripped scripts will not be accepted.

Well, thats not all might be more will come to make this forum great, greater and greatest

awyeah · Post by **awyeah** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:37 am

How about rating based on the NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS. I mean every website we normally goto on the internet be it download.com or any other has ratings based on the number of downloads.

Ian-Highlander · Post by **Ian-Highlander** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:39 am

awyeah wrote:How about rating based on the NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS. I mean every website we normally goto on the internet be it download.com or any other has ratings based on the number of downloads.

You already effectively have that by clicking the "Popular Scripts" link which shows the top scripts by the number of times they've been downloaded in number of downloads order.

cache · Post by **cache** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:25 pm

Good ideas here...

My 2cents...

Instead of having the links in the Tcl Archive automatically download... have the link go to the forum thread with the download link in the first post, then people can reply about it... and best of all it would cut down time for slennox as the author of the script can be able to edit the first post and insert new update/ download link..

cache.

incith · Post by **incith** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:10 am

I like the idea of allowing registered members 1 vote per script. I suppose this would require linking forum logins to script voting, or an alternative means of user management for voting.

sKy · Post by **sKy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:57 pm

Nice ideas here.

Cache`s idea was one of the best. New scripts should be annonced in the forum first. If them are okay them could be uploaded to the script archive. The script archive should be linked with the orignal thread.

De Kus · Post by **De Kus** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:47 am

For persons like me who has threads for all his releases it would be a nice idea. Addionally I sometimes edit scripts with only simple proof of working tests, because I am too lazy to create all possible situations for the script

. But I dont know how you can include it, without making it the default. Maybe add these threads as "more" or "details" link? Writing it as a "more details, versions and comments" might be a bit long

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