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07/13/2006 05:01:05 AM · #1 |
Rather than having the tick box "this comment was helpful", how about giving the recipient the option to score a comment out of 10. Commenters would have on their home page stats for "number of rated comments left" and average "helpfulness of comment" score on their homepage.
If you wished to make this even more competitive, you could combine the two (no. of rated comments left and average helpfulness of comment) to give a "comments score". The presence of a comments score would discourage people from leaving one very helpful comment and then stopping, to retain a perfect average helpfulness of comment score.
The benefits would be that people would compete to provide the most helpful comments. The number of quality comments should increase, giving people valuable feedback.
The rating procedure would be no more arduous than the option to tick the "this comment was helpful" box.
The disadvantage may be that people start moaning about the way people score comments. I would anticipate that this would be a minor issue, and no more of an issue than already experienced on the voting of images.
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07/13/2006 05:08:34 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
The disadvantage may be that people start moaning about the way people score comments. I would anticipate that this would be a minor issue, and no more of an issue than already experienced on the voting of images. |
How about not showing the rater the score he got for any single comment, but only his average score? |
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07/13/2006 05:09:01 AM · #3 |
I believe the main objection to this has been not wanting a reduction in the already low number of comments. The thinking is the lowest rating of any rating system will be taken as meaning the comment was not helpful (read that 'wanted') -- and that this would then result in less desire to leave further comments.
I don't agree with that line of thinking, but if memory serves me correctly that was the main reason presented to not implement.
David
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07/13/2006 05:12:23 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
The disadvantage may be that people start moaning about the way people score comments. I would anticipate that this would be a minor issue, and no more of an issue than already experienced on the voting of images. |
How about not showing the rater the score he got for any single comment, but only his average score? |
Isn't that similar to talking about someone behind their back? When people talk about someone behind their back, their reputation deminishes, but they don't know why.
A person who's commenting reputation goes down would have no way of know why it went down -- and thus no way to know what needs corrected.
David
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07/13/2006 05:22:06 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by David.C:
Originally posted by eyewave:
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
The disadvantage may be that people start moaning about the way people score comments. I would anticipate that this would be a minor issue, and no more of an issue than already experienced on the voting of images. |
How about not showing the rater the score he got for any single comment, but only his average score? |
Isn't that similar to talking about someone behind their back? When people talk about someone behind their back, their reputation deminishes, but they don't know why.
A person who's commenting reputation goes down would have no way of know why it went down -- and thus no way to know what needs corrected.
David |
Has some truth in it, but the only reason for commenting reputation going down could be the lack of helpfulness (forgetting those comments rated low/unhelpful because the photographer doesn't agree, as an uncorrectable optimist I think those aren't too many) |
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07/13/2006 05:35:39 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
How about not showing the rater the score he got for any single comment, but only his average score? |
Do you mean the recipient? If so, that was my intention. Comments would be scored anonymously (though people may be able to calculate scores received in the way that they currently do).
However, I note the other disadvantages
- people with a grudge might score someone deliberately badly (advanced trolling!). The system would be anonymous, and this kind of behaviour would probably be negligible against the background of commenting generally.
- some people might be disheartened by getting a low score for their comments. How about making the system optional - so people who want to have their comments rated, and participate in that competitive arena could do so, but people who like to say "nice" a lot don't have to have the ignominy of a low score on their homepage when they are only being pleasant.
Lots of sites do manage to successfully allow comments received to be rated, and give a score for commenting.
Message edited by author 2006-07-13 05:36:43.
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