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File Rating System
Posted by Magnus on 14 March 2004, 18:25 GMT

The first part of our shiny new file rating system has been finished. This is the part that will collect the rating of the community, and store it in our database. We do not yet create any reports based on the ratings information, but will eventually. As usual, you can only rate each file once.

So, please go ahead and rate a lot of files. That way the initial rankings will contain valid data once they go up. To rate a file, bring up its file information page, and select your vote.

Update (Joey): We didn't forget about Pi Day, but no one around here could come up with enough material for an article. I guess you could go read mine from last year, or even better, Andy's article from four years ago. Happy Pi Day.

Update (Magnus): The forms now show which end of the scale means good and which means bad.

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A Thought
coinmanz  Account Info
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Here's a thought, which took time to logically develop: Charge people $.05 or $.10 per file to host it. That would cut down on trash uploaded and give ticalc.org's staff some salary, bringing in lots of dough. With that in mind, featured programs could be exempt, but those files already on the site, if the author can't be contacted, may pose a problem. A solution is to contact all available authors and make payment plans or delete files, and for the staff to pick which problem files to keep (those whose author can't be contacted). I know this is a free site, but I'm sure ALOT of people would actually pay for file hosting, I know I would.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2004, 16:10 GMT

Re: A Thought
Gergely Patai  Account Info
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Wrong. They would put up a website of their own instead and advertise the links. Alternatively, other free archives might spring up here and there. You can't expect anyone but the mentally challenged to pay for silly calc stuff.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2004, 20:53 GMT


Re: Re: A Thought
coinmanz  Account Info
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Good point. People already advertise links to save their own bandwidth and user space (ie Cemetech) and their are other free archives which don't do that (ie RBP II), so I guess the idea really is fruitless.

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 14:21 GMT


Re: A Thought
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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This is a FREE site... most people would probably think, "If I have to pay to share my programs, why share them at all?"

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 01:16 GMT

Re: File Rating System
chemoautotroph Account Info
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Oops, I hope ten was good, I better go check....

Reply to this comment    15 March 2004, 17:10 GMT

Re: File Rating System
Travis Evans Account Info

I have an idea. What if there were more than one rating category for controls/UI, stability, graphics, etc. Then if a file got a really bad or good rating you'd have an idea of why.

The problem is that different types of files would probably need different categories. "Graphics" would make sense for games, but wouldn't apply to math programs, for instance.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2004, 18:37 GMT


Re: Re: File Rating System
Jason Malinowski  Account Info

Of course you could always give a review for the program to go into more detail.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2004, 03:43 GMT

Re: File Rating System
jrock7286  Account Info

I just noticed a way that it looks like you ALMOST celebrated pi day...when you vote for a file, look at the html location...just glancing at it, the endl looked like ".pi"...unfortunately, it is just ".pl"...can this be changed, redeeming the ticalc website once again? or if it is changed will it make that page unopenable? Hmmm....I'm going to check a website I know to see if there are any ".pi" extensions.... ;)

Reply to this comment    15 March 2004, 19:41 GMT


Re: Re: File Rating System
jrock7286  Account Info
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hehe...there's three of 'em...go to http://filext.com/ detaillist.php? extdetail=pi&goButton=Go (without the spaces) or just click the link and take out the spaces (or the "%20"'s)...

Reply to this comment    15 March 2004, 19:48 GMT


Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Wow! Pi extensions! LOL- one is associated with a virus :-D

And, no, the PERL wouldn't run if it was .pi

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 01:19 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Elias Zacarias  Account Info
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can be changed in the MIME conf file. ;)
Well, theorycally at least, I've not tested it anyway...

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 02:18 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Jason Malinowski  Account Info

Possibly symlink to the real file? I'm not sure if httpd would handle that properly, though.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2004, 03:45 GMT

Hiring?
Michael McElroy Account Info
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Hmm. What happened to the whole 'hiring a new staff member' thing?

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 02:55 GMT


Re: Hiring?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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We're slow!

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 23:02 GMT

Re: File Rating System
Justin McKinley Account Info

Where is the "reviewer's toplist"? (see update: implimented reviewer's toplist)

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 03:12 GMT


Re: Re: File Rating System
Elias Zacarias  Account Info
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Don't you think you are asking for too much?

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 03:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Justin McKinley  Account Info

look at "recent updates" it says it was implimented, but I can't find it anywhere

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 03:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Justin McKinley  Account Info
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nevermind, I found it. See link

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 03:27 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Justin McKinley  Account Info

Wow, they added reviews written to account info (the orange button)

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 03:30 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Elias Zacarias  Account Info
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geez... nice :P

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 03:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Oh, that's cool! I like that idea! :)

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 18:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Ahh, when I click on an icon in a profile to see a review that they wrote, it doesn't work... this happening to anybody else?

Reply to this comment    16 March 2004, 23:11 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Ben Cherry  Account Info
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I never even knew that feature existed, but i tried it on your profile and got the "404 error page"

Reply to this comment    17 March 2004, 00:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Justin McKinley  Account Info

The only one I tried before had multible reviews, I just tried the ones you reviewed, and got an error, maybe they did a link to "see X more reviews for this file" page, which does not exist for most reviewed files.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2004, 20:12 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Rating System
Justin McKinley  Account Info

I've gone throgh some more and I can comfirm, only games (and programs) with multible reviews can be reaached from the "files reviewed" link in the author info page. Someone should fix this.

Reply to this comment    18 March 2004, 02:25 GMT

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