[pmwiki-users] a simple rating system for recipes

[Dr Fred C]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> There's been a lot of discussion in the past about coming up
> with a rating system for cookbook recipes.  Ben Wilson has
> a recipe at [2], but I wanted to try something even simpler.
>
> Take a look at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimpleRating
> and tell me what you think.  
>   
One problem with this sort of system is to be relevant, it's information 
has to be gathered after the fact.  Lots of folks won't go to the effort 
to come back and be polled after they've got something running, plus 
there may be a slight tilt towards such a system attracting those who 
found some problems with the recipe.  Perhaps this could be a good thing? 

Another way to gage utility (or at least interest in a type of utility) 
would seem to offer some info about # of downloads or # of 
downloads/time period.  The logic for # per time period rather than just 
total number of downloads is to give some recognition to up and coming 
recipes. 

It also might be useful if each recipe_xxx had it's own review link -- 
cookbook/recipe_xxx_review.  (IMHO, cookbook/recipe_xxx/review would be 
the appropriate hierarchy, but that's another issue).  Each recipe's 
review page would be in some sort of blog format, perhaps that offered 
polling for the value of the recipe.  If one could then average polling 
for that recipe, one might have something of good value.

Always, Dr Fred C
drfredc at drfredc.com