redbullmarky Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Nice and easy question. When it comes to rating content, which do you prefer and why? What would YOU have on your site if you were doing a rating script? 1, Stars: eg, 5 stars and you click on whatever 2, Thumbs up/down (or generally anything with just two choices) 3, other...please give details Basically I'm looking at implementing a nice and easy rating system into a current project, so just wondering what people kinda prefer/find easier/find look better, etc. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balmung-San Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 If I were to write a rating system, I'd probably use stars. It gives a bit more flexibility then the absolute thumb up/down system, while not going so unstructured as to not really give it a rating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Stars. Its a 5 star hotel etc. etc. 5 star rating. Its hard to say to someone - I got 5 thumbs on the project I submitted etc. etc. Although fsckn bots are clicking the stars for me !! I dont have time to change them to javascript operated however. Its on the to-do list. -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 It depends on what it is, honestly. Thumbs Up/Down is good for interactions - or small decisions. 5 stars is better for content, like the tutorials on this site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I generally implement "out of five" systems for rating content - I never use stars though, so over used Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 It depends what you need to rate. If it is like a comment (see: Digg) I think a thumb up/down rating system works fine as it would seem sort of strange to me that a comment got "3.7 out of 5", but rather if it is really "dugg up" or "dugg down" is easier. For content sort of things (articles, tutorials, scripts, downloads, pictures etc.) I think a five points based rating system would be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I'm in agreement with the others... based on what you're rating, the rating system probably differs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 If you would like to get really advanced, I don't know how advanced this is though, but what is cool is a slider like this one at gamespot:http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/sports/mvp07ncaabaseball/index.html - They had an even nice one, but now it is switched with this here is a tutorial the scroll bar needs some graphic work, but it scrolls: http://www.agavegroup.com/?p=28 Otherwise if your a rating from 0-10 is good if you would like to know the quality of something, but thumbs up or thumbs down for a do you like or dislike it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 alright thanks all. i think the star rating kinda wins then for what i'm doing. i do have some bits where a thumbs up/down might work well, but consistency across my site is probably gonna be more important i guess. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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